v
(obsolete) To send away; dismiss.
v
(law) To dismiss from an office or station.
v
(transitive) To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out).
v
(transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
v
(heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
adj
Terminated, fired from a job.
n
(euphemistic, humorous) An act that is likely to result in the actor's demotion or loss of employment.
n
A dismissal of an individual from service, especially in the military.
n
(chiefly UK) The practice or act of forcing an employee to resign by creating a hostile work environment.
v
To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
v
(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
n
A written or spoken statement of such an act.
v
(transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
v
(transitive, idiomatic, informal) To abolish; to put an end to; to eliminate.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To leave the place (of an army), etc.
adj
dismissed, let go from a job.
v
(transitive) To have (an employee) not work in order to reduce costs; to send (someone) on furlough.
v
(slang) To be dismissed from employment.
n
An act of getting rid of someone or something whose departure is welcomed.
v
(transitive, chiefly US, idiomatic) (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
v
(euphemistic) To dismiss from employment.
v
(informal) To set off or allow to begin.
v
(Canada, US, intransitive) Of a school: to finish for the day or term, allowing the pupils to go home.
n
An escape from punishment.
n
One who lets, or lets out.
v
To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate.
n
(obsolete) Dismissal; discharge from service
n
A formal dismissal from a situation.
adj
coming or casting off; retiring, shedding, detaching or emitting
adj
(informal) Fired, dismissed or thrown out, especially for some wrongdoing or otherwise with disgrace.
v
(transitive) To send out or forth; issue; emit; transmit; broadcast.
v
(idiomatic) To end a relationship.
v
(US, informal, transitive) To terminate the employment of.
v
(figuratively) To reject intimacy; to reject friendship or romance; to refuse to accept or think about (something unpleasant).
v
(transitive, now formal or literary) To discard, divest oneself of.
adj
(chiefly Britain, New Zealand, Australia) Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
v
(transitive) To lay off from work due to a reduction in force.
adj
Who has lost a job due to a RIF.
v
(transitive, Oxbridge, Durham University) To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.
n
(informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense⁵ below.
v
(transitive) To relieve (a worker) temporarily by taking his or her place.
n
The act of being instantly fired from employment for an inexcusable offence against policy.
v
(of a person) To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To dismiss; to fire.
v
To leave an office or position.
v
Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
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