verb
- Bar from attention or consideration.
- usage: "She dismissed his advances"
- synonyms: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore
- Cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration.
- usage: "This case is dismissed"
- Stop associating with.
- usage: "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"
- synonyms: dismiss, send packing, send away, drop
- Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.
- usage: "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
- synonyms: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
- End one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave.
- usage: "I was dismissed after I gave my report"
- Declare void.
- usage: "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections"
adjective
- Having lost your job.
- synonyms: discharged, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped
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