dismissal

Meaning

Noun

• The act of sending someone away.
• Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
• A written or spoken statement of such an act.
• Release from confinement; liberation.
• Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
• The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
• The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
• The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service.

Origin

• From dismiss + -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.