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discharge
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a patient is discharged (from hospital) (= allowed to leave it ) ▪ The patient was discharged after eight days. be discharged/dismissed from the army ▪ He developed epilepsy, a condition which led to him being discharged ...
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Discharge in the context to expel or to "let go" may refer to: Military discharge , when a member of the armed forces is released from service Termination of employment , the end of an employee's duration with an employer Patient discharge, the formal ending ...
Usage examples of discharge.
He was elected Vice-president in 1876, and the duties of that office have rarely been discharged by an abler or more courteous officer.
Why Adams failed to discharge Oliver Wolcott while cleaning house was never adequately explained.
Great numbers of the Alani, appeased by the punctual discharge of the engagements which Aurelian had contracted with them, relinquished their booty and captives, and quietly retreated to their own deserts, beyond the Phasis.
Meanwhile, Castle launched a frontal assault on the water problem by cracking down on industrial pollution, enforcing compliance with laws already on the books to eliminate poisonous industrial discharges into rivers and streams, and successfully lobbying for laws that gave tax credits to factories that installed antipollution and water-recycling equipment.
His brain took a nanosecond to process the backlighted outline of a female figure pointing a discharged gun.
His discharge diagnosis was fever of unknown origin with bacteroides septicemia.
To punish him, I have had him placed for a short time in the Bastile, that he may learn to be more circumspect in the discharge of his duty, and that his example may serve as a warning to others.
These were old markings though, and my attention returned to the fresh wound: I thought I noticed something embedded there, a slight, blackish protrusion under the slick coat of discharging blood.
He had discharged himself without fuss from an Academy for the Sons of Gentlemen in Brno, and from the British public school recommended by his grandmother, the redoubtable Nora Coutts, who lived in a wing of the house drinking Earl Grey tea from Harrods and bullying him about the syntax of the English language.
Individual tribesmen ran up, shouting insults, to within fifty yards of the Buffs and discharged their rifles.
Of course, menstruation before the third or fourth year is extremely rare, most of the cases reported before this age being merely accidental sanguineous discharges from the genitals, not regularly periodical, and not true catamenia.
A run was then made to Charlottetown, Granada, where the collection was discharged, cleaned and packed in hogsheads all ready for the first boat that would call, bound for New York.
In this difficult and well-managed operation the gaps between the British columns were concealed by the lighting of long veld-fires and the discharge of rifles by scattered scouts.
Doc waited a few minutes for the capacitors to fully discharge, just in case the comps had crash protectors, then hit the master switch once more.
The table is covered with the piece of plywood and purple velvet cloth stored in the game closet beside the Crokinole board and discharged pool cues.