Meaning

8 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of sending someone away.

    Wegschicken, Abweisen, Abweisung

    ро́спускróspusk

    permission to go; the sending away of someone

  2. (countable, uncountable)Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.

    Entlassung, Kündigung, Abberufung

    увольне́ниеuvolʹnénije, отста́вкаotstávka, сокраще́ниеsokraščénije

    зві́льненняzvílʹnennja, звільня́нняzvilʹnjánnja

  3. (countable, uncountable)A written or spoken statement of such an act.

  4. (countable, uncountable)Release from confinement; liberation.

  5. (countable, uncountable)Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.

  6. (countable, uncountable)The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.

    Abweisung, Zurückweisung

    отклоне́ниеotklonénije

  7. (countable, uncountable)The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.

  8. (countable, uncountable)The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. The manager threatened him with dismissal.

  2. His mistakes led to his eventual dismissal.

  3. What were the grounds for her dismissal?

  4. Too many lesson cancellations resulted in the teacher's dismissal.

  5. Membership of an allotment association is not grounds for dismissal.

    deEine Mitgliedschaft im Kleingärtnerverein ist kein Kündigungsgrund. — MUIRIEL

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
deprivation of office:
Русский
By meaning 3
act of sending someone away:
deprivation of office:
rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
act of sending someone away:
deprivation of office:
rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim:

Forms

plural: dismissals
Singulardismissal
Pluraldismissals

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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