to dismiss
87
3.3
- verb
- /dɪsˈmɪs/
- An investigation was undertaken and five months later, I was dismissed from my role at the college and made unemployed.
- dismiss an employee
- be dismissed from a job
- dismiss workers
Examples
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Recently, Delacroy had to dismiss an employee, Eleanor Green, who was suffering severe psychological problems.
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Mr. Bailes, a bus driver, was dismissed after a saliva drug test picked up traces of cocaine.
Academic text (2015) -
Our Finance Minister has been dismissed!
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So redundancy is a fair reason to dismiss an employee.
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Number 6: Reform the tenure review process to make it easier to dismiss ineffective teachers.
Academic text (2015) -
As a result, its editor was briefly dismissed last year, although he was later reinstated.
Academic text (1993) -
He was suspected of robbing a bank while on active service in Northern Ireland, and he was dismissed.
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Tenured teachers can be dismissed after two consecutive years of unsatisfactory reviews.
Academic text (2013) -
In an attempt to rejuvenate the political leadership, Castro dismissed several high-ranking officials.
Academic text (1994) -
The manager decided to dismiss the employee due to repeated tardiness.
Synonyms
∞
1.5
To move something or someone away from a place
∞
2.8
To officially make someone leave their job
376
3.0
To force someone to leave a place, job, or group
176
3.3
Stop employing someone because the company cannot afford them, not because of bad work
129
3.0
Make someone leave a job or group because of a problem
110
4.4
Officially release someone from a duty, job, or responsibility
72
4.4
To make someone leave a job by pressure or threats
67
5.5
To make someone stop working for a company
46
3.8
To stop employing someone so they lose their job
38
7.4
To remove a leader from office, often by force
33
7.7
To fire someone from their job in informal speech
30
3.5
To make someone leave their job
24
7.9
Make someone leave quickly and forcefully
20
5.8
Force someone to leave a job or organization suddenly
12
7.4
To stop someone from working at their job, usually because of bad work or behavior
8
4.1
Formally tell an employee that their job will end
1
7.4
To suddenly end someone's job or a relationship, often without warning
1
5.2
To make someone leave their job, often as punishment or during job cuts
To stop employing someone, often suddenly as punishment
To tell someone they must leave their job
To tell someone they have lost their job or show the truth about their situation
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
73
4.6
To say someone or something is not worth taking seriously without careful thought
How Severe
87
3.3
35
5.6
- Formal
246
4.2
- Formal
33
6.1
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
dismiss = miss (opaque) = dis + miss
The employment-related sense derives from the same historical formation, but 'miss' does not mean 'remove from post' in modern English, making the relation non-transparent for learners.
Etymology
Dismiss comes from the Latin parts dis- 'away' and mittere 'to send', so it literally means to 'send away' a person. The same root appears in words like mission and transmit, and this is why to dismiss someone at work is to remove or 'send away' them from their job.