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# dismissal

«dismissal» in Mova's school dictionary: **Making someone leave their job; being sacked or fired** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a dismissal, dismissals; dismissal — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Making someone leave their job; being sacked or fired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/#m1)

2) Letting people go, for example at the end of the school day: Dismissal is at 3 o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/#m2)

3) Refusing to take an idea seriously: his dismissal of my plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/#m3)

4) (law) A judge deciding a case will not go on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/#m4)

5) (cricket) A batter being got out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In US schools «dismissal» is the time children leave school; at work it means losing your job; in courts a case can end with a dismissal. Phrases: «unfair dismissal», «school dismissal», «early dismissal», «dismissal of a case».

### examples

- After dismissal, the children walked to the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/#x1)
- There is early dismissal on Friday because of the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/#x2)
- The worker said his dismissal was unfair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/#x3)
- Her quick dismissal of my idea hurt my feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/#x4)
- The judge ordered the dismissal of the case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/#x5)
- The bowler celebrated the batter's dismissal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/#x6)
- This misfortune so preyed upon his mind that he did not long survive his dismissal—he died, leaving behind him his beautiful young wife to face the world alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/#x7)

### note

From the verb «dismiss». Countable for single events (a dismissal), uncountable for the idea. In the UK «school dismissal» is less common — people say «home time». In maths, «dismissal at 3:15» can be used for time questions: how long from the start of school to dismissal.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dismissal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dismissal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.