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dismissal noun [ dɪsˈmɪsl ]

• the act of ordering or allowing someone to leave.
• "their controversial dismissal from the competition"
Similar: one's notice, discharge, redundancy, expulsion, ousting, the sack, sacking, firing, laying off, the push, the boot, the axe, the (old) heave-ho, one's marching orders, defenestration, the elbow, turfing out, one's cards, the chop, cashiering, rejection, repudiation, refusal, repulse, non-acceptance, snub, slight, pooh-poohing, brush-off, knock-back,
Opposite: recruitment, acceptance,
• the act of treating something as unworthy of serious consideration; rejection.


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