dismissal

1 a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial [syn: judgment of dismissal, judgement of dismissal]

2 official notice that you have been fired from your job [syn: dismission, pink slip]

3 permission to go; the sending away of someone

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

English

Noun

1. The act of dismissing, or the condition of being dismissed.
2. A notice of such a dismissal.
3. The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.

Dismissal may refer to:

• In litigation, a dismissal the result of a successful motion to dismiss. See motion (legal).
• In employment law, a dismissal is the termination of a contract of employment.
• In the sport of cricket, a dismissal is also known as taking a wicket or getting the batsman out. See dismissal (cricket).
• The Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 was commonly known as, and dramatised for television as, the Dismissal.
• In the sport of Association Football, a dismissal is the expulsion of a player from the field of play by the referee for serious misconduct.
• At church services, the dismissal is the final benediction given at the end of the service.
• In Eastern Orthodox liturgics, the dismissal hymn (apolytikion) is the troparion of the day.

Related words, such as "dismissed" could mean:

• Dismissed (TV series).
• Dismissed, an episode of Power Rangers: SPD.
• Dismissed, a single released by ZOEgirl.

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