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n. The act of dismissing.

n. The condition of being dismissed.

n. An order or notice of discharge.

n. The act of sending someone away.

n. Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.

n. A written or spoken statement of such an act.

n. Release from confinement; liberation.

n. Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.

n. The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.

n. The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.

n. Dismission; discharge.

n. The act of dismissing, or the state or fact of being dismissed.

n. Discharge; displacement from employment or office.

n. The act of discarding, or the state of being discarded.

n. Liberation; manumission.

n. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

n. permission to go; the sending away of someone

n. official notice that you have been fired from your job

n. a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial

"It has been suggested that the real reason for the dismissal is the handling of the Marcellus shale controversy."

permission    judgment    judicial decision    judgement   

dismission    discharge   

antimissile    bristle    epistle    fissel    fissile    gristle    missal    missel    missile    thistle   

refusal    expulsion    rejection    acknowledgment    rejoinder    acquiescence    disapproval    resignation    surrender    rebuke