dismissal

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From dismiss +‎ -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.

• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɪsˈmɪsəɫ], [dɪzˈmɪsəɫ]

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dismissal (countable and uncountable, plural dismissals)

1. The act of sending someone away.
3. Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.

4. A written or spoken statement of such an act.
5. Release from confinement; liberation.
6. Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
7. (law) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
8. (cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
9. (Christianity) The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service.