Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dismission"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dismission
n 1: 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}]
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