dismission : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dismission	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for dismission
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dismission n official notice that you have been fired from your job Synonym(s): dismissal, dismission, pink slip the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) Synonym(s): dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dismission \Dismis"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.