Other forms: dismissals
A dismissal is being formally removed from your job. Unfair dismissal, constructive dismissal, appeal against the dismissal.
British law names two special kinds: unfair dismissal, where the reason or the process was wrong, and constructive dismissal, where conditions were made so bad that leaving counts as being sacked. In cricket a dismissal is a wicket taken.
1noundismissalBeing formally removed from your job.
“After being caught stealing from the till, he faced immediate dismissal.”
dismissal is a removal.
Also accepted in games: firing
A nineteenth-century form built on dismiss, from Latin dimittere, to send away — dis plus mittere, to send.
Latin
dīmittō
Middle English
dismissen//dismisen
English
dismiss
English, today
dismissal
Built from
From dismiss + -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission. dismiss comes from Middle English dismissen//dismisen, from Latin dīmittō. Middle English, from Latin dimissus (“sent away, dismissed, banished”), perfect passive participle of dīmittō (“send away, dismiss”), from dis- + mittere.
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