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The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Answer for the clue "The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) ", 9 letters:
dismissal
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Word definitions for dismissal in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dismissal \Dis*miss"al\, n. Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. --Motley.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of sending someone away. 2 (senseid en deprivation of office)Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial [syn: judgment of dismissal , judgement of dismissal ] official notice that you have been fired from your job [syn: dismission , pink slip ] permission to go; the sending away of someone the termination ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES constructive dismissal COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE constructive ▪ But what exactly is constructive dismissal ? ▪ Practical implications Almost all constructive dismissal cases involve an unfair dismissal claim. ...
Usage examples of dismissal.
Taking this as a dismissal, the barkeep scurried back to his bar, rattling the orbs in his hand as he went.
The general manager, the general superintendent, and a number of the division superintendents resigned to save dismissal, and my friend the chief despatcher went with them.
Appletonians heard of his dismissal in disgrace from New York University, where he had obtained an instructorship in English.
It was like a dismissal by Zusu or Colonel Koda, Varlik thought, watching him go, then turned to the river boat.
Any gross misstatement on the part of a bank cashier would almost certainly subject him to a rigid examination, and to the penalty of dismissal.
Justice spoke for the Court as in the Slocum Case, it was held that a trial court had the right to enter a judgment on the verdict of the jury for the plaintiff after overruling a motion by defendant for dismissal on the ground of insufficient evidence.
It was the form of dismissal for the hardrock miners whose earnings he was wont to take, but Rimrock was not particular.
The woman, Sadra Rosales, was only a conduit, though perhaps I do her a disservice by this dismissal.
Bruce and the Stuart, and listened to the strains of the laureate of the day, who prophesied, in drink, the dismissal of the intrusive Hanoverian, by the right and might of the righteous and disinherited line.
In a hushed-up, out-of-court settlement, Lee was also awarded three hundred thousand pounds by Tottenham Hotspur for unfair dismissal, but that money was kept by his agent, Seth Meyer, who used it to clear some of his debts.
He finally found him half concealed behind an archway, trading whispers with a seedy-looking man who melted away as soon as Aziz caught sight of Hamid-Jones and made a little sign of dismissal.
Giwo had received her dismissal than the men about town importuned her with messages to appear at their banquets and sent her gifts daily, but Giwo hid herself at home and refused to see anyone.
It was clear even then that Buchanan considered me stone crazy, and my dismissal of Nixon as a hopeless bum with no chance of winning anything seemed to amuse him more than anything else.
Saddam has a history of shooting the messenger and seeing dissenting views as challenges to his authority--challenges usually met with dismissal or summary execution.
Every Reserve officer on active duty knows this, but Coleman had never been able to adjust to the idea of sudden, peremptory dismissal.