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Dismission

Dismission \Dis*mis"sion\, n. [Cf. L. dimissio.]

  1. The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

  2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace.

  3. Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.

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dismission

n. 1 The act of dismissing or send away (someone). 2 Removal from office; termination of employment or services. 3 The setting aside (of something) from consideration.

WordNet
dismission

  1. n. official notice that you have been fired from your job [syn: dismissal, pink slip]

  2. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking]

Usage examples of "dismission".

The Prætor who presides over the Centumviri, alarm'd at this Step of Nepos, gave us a Dismission, in order to deliberate, whether he should follow a Precedent he did not expect before.