Dismissal Definition
dĭs-mĭsəl
dismissals
noun
dismissals
A dismissing or being dismissed.
Webster's New World
The condition of being dismissed.
American Heritage
An order for the dismissing of someone.
Webster's New World
The termination of a legal proceeding by the judge, before a trial or hearing, typically on the grant of a motion to dismiss by the adverse party, or because the claimant failed to proceed with the action or comply with an order of the court, or because the claimant has agreed to end the proceeding.
Webster's New World Law
Of employment, the firing of an employee.
Webster's New World Law
Synonyms:
- pink-slip
- dismission
- judgement of dismissal
- judgment of dismissal
- sack
- liberation
- firing
- release
- sacking
- discharge
- waiver
- nunc dimittis
- marching-orders
- manumission
- deprivation
Other Word Forms of Dismissal
Noun
Singular:
dismissal
Plural:
dismissalsOrigin of Dismissal
-
From dismiss + -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.
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