dismissalnoun
uk/dɪˈsmɪs.əl/us/dɪˈsmɪs.əl/dismissal noun (FROM JOB)
C1 [ C or U ] the situation in which an employer officially makes someone leave their job:
unfair/wrongful dismissal
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Firing staff
- axe
- be out on your ear idiom
- chop
- constructive dismissal
- defrock
- delayering
- get the push idiom
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- grass
- heave-ho
- invalid sb out
- lay sb off
- pension
- relieve
- removal
- remove
- retire
- sack
- sacking
- shakeout
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dismissal noun (OF IDEA, ETC.)
C1 [ U ] a decision that someone or something is not important
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Treating as unimportant
- blow
- blow sth/sb off
- brush sb/sth aside
- denigrate
- deprecate
- derogate
- derogate from sth
- laugh
- play fast and loose with sth/sb idiom
- pour
- pour scorn on sb/sth idiom
- scorn
- scornful
- scruple
- shrug
- talk
- talk sth down
- wave
- write
- write sb/sth off
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