Need another word that means the same as “dismissal”? Find 15 synonyms and 30 related words for “dismissal” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Dismissal” are: dismission, pink slip, judgement of dismissal, judgment of dismissal, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking, one's notice, rejection, repudiation, refusal, repulse
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dismissal” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| discharge | A substance that has been discharged. Machinery to rehabilitate the bankrupt through the process of discharge. |
| dismission | The termination of someone’s employment (leaving them free to depart. |
| firing | The act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy. No missile firings were planned. |
| judgement of dismissal | The capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions. |
| judgment of dismissal | The capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions. |
| liberation | The attempt to achieve equal rights or status. She worked for women s liberation. |
| one's notice | Advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract. |
| pink slip | A person with mildly leftist political views. |
| refusal | An instance of a horse stopping short or running aside at a jump. An appeal against the refusal of a licence. |
| rejection | The state of being rejected. His proposals were met with rejection. |
| release | A document effecting a release of property money etc. The release of iodine from the thyroid gland. |
| repudiation | Rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid. Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated. |
| repulse | The action of driving back an attack or of being driven back. The repulse of the invaders. |
| sack | The quantity contained in a sack. He got the sack for swearing. |
| sacking | Any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry. The offence merited a written warning that could lead to a sacking. |
| absolve | Let off the hook. She asked the bishop to absolve her sins. |
| adjournment | The termination of a meeting. She sought an adjournment of the trial. |
| cutout | A switch that interrupts an electric circuit in the event of an overload. |
| decomposition | (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance. The decomposition of organic waste. |
| disband | Cause to break up or cease to function. The principal disbanded the political student organization. |
| discharge | Go off or discharge. Industrial plants discharge highly toxic materials into rivers. |
| disintegration | The spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation. A disintegration of personality. |
| disperse | Denoting a phase dispersed in another phase as in a colloid. The police used tear gas to disperse the protesters. |
| dissipation | Breaking up and scattering by dispersion. Energy dissipation. |
| dissolution | Debauched living; dissipation. Minerals susceptible to dissolution. |
| eject | Leave an aircraft rapidly using an ejection seat or capsule. He ejected the spent cartridge. |
| emancipate | Set (a child) free from the authority of its parents. An emancipated minor. |
| emancipation | Freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent’s relinquishing authority and control over a minor child. The social and political emancipation of women. |
| evict | Expel from one’s property or force to move out by a legal process. The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months. |
| exonerate | Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges. An inquiry exonerated those involved. |
| extravagance | A thing on which too much money has been spent or which has used up too many resources. We were surprised by the extravagance of his description. |
| fire | Start or maintain a fire in. Oil fires the furnace. |
| free | Grant freedom to free from confinement. Free enterprise. |
| liberate | Release (someone) from a situation which limits freedom of thought or behaviour. The serfs had been liberated. |
| liberation | The termination of someone’s employment (leaving them free to depart. The liberation of all political prisoners. |
| looseness | A lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice. The flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made. |
| manumit | Free from slavery or servitude. Old Angus had never manumitted a single slave. |
| outlet | A market for goods. She had no other outlet for her feelings. |
| radiate | Arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center. He ran down one of the passages that radiated from the room. |
| recess | Put into a recess. Parliament was in recess. |
| redundancy | The state of being no longer in employment because there is no more work available. The use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers. |
| redundant | (of a person) no longer employed because there is no more work available. Eight permanent staff were made redundant. |
| release | Release as from one s grip. She released his arm and pushed him aside. |
| separation | The social act of separating or parting company. An improved method of lead separation. |
| waiver | A formal written statement of relinquishment. Their acquiescence could amount to a waiver. |
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