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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISMISSAL, n. Dismission.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial [syn: judgment of dismissal, judgement of dismissal, dismissal]
2: official notice that you have been fired from your job [syn: dismissal, dismission, pink slip]
3: permission to go; the sending away of someone
4: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1778 the act of dismissing ; the fact or state of being dismissed

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dismissal Dis*miss"al, n. Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. --Motley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dismissals) 1. When an employee is dismissed from their job, you can refer to their dismissal. ...Mr Low's dismissal from his post at the head of the commission. N-VAR: oft with poss 2. Dismissal of something means deciding or saying that it is not important. ...their high-handed dismissal of public opinion. N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. See dismission.

Moby Thesaurus

abjuration, abjurement, absolution, acquittal, acquittance, adjournment, bounce, breakup, brush-off, cancellation, cashiering, chucking, chucking out, clearance, clearing, cold shoulder, compurgation, conge, contempt, contradiction, cut, deactivation, declination, declining, deconsecration, defrocking, demobilization, denial, deposal, deposition, deprivation, despisal, despising, destigmatization, destigmatizing, detachment, dethronement, diaspora, disapproval, disbandment, disbarment, disbarring, discard, discharge, disclamation, discounting, discrownment, disculpation, disemployment, disenthronement, disintegration, disorganization, disownment, dispersal, dispersion, displacement, displacing, disregard, dissolution, drumming out, end, exception, exclusion, excommunication, exculpation, excuse, exoneration, expulsion, firing, forced resignation, forced separation, forgiveness, furloughing, ignoring, impeachment, kicking upstairs, layoff, liquidation, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, notice, ousting, overthrow, overthrowal, pardon, parole, parting, passing by, pensioning off, pink slip, purgation, purge, purging, putting away, putting out, quietus, quittance, rebuff, recantation, refusal, rejection, release, remission, removal, renouncement, repudiation, repulse, retirement, sack, sacking, scouting, separation, snub, split-up, spurning, superannuation, surplusing, suspension, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the sack, throwing out, ticket, turning out, unbinding, unbolting, unbridling, unbuckling, uncaging, unchaining, unchurching, unfettering, unfrocking, ungagging, unhanding, unharnessing, unhobbling, unlashing, unlatching, unleashing, unlocking, unloosing, unmanacling, unmuzzling, unpenning, unseating, unshackling, unstrapping, untethering, untrussing, untying, unyoking, verdict of acquittal, vindication, walking papers