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dismissed

dismissed

3.2
A person who no longer has their job because they were fired
  • adjective
  • /dɪsˈmɪst/
translation icon : despedido
  • When the school took appropriate action, the problem employee was finally dismissed.

OU starting quarterback Rhett Baumar was dismissed from the team in August, and Paul Thompson took over.

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Examples

  • OU starting quarterback Rhett Baumar was dismissed from the team in August, and Paul Thompson took over.

  • Well, because Shaftesbury's support for this, he was dismissed as Lord chancellor.

  • To you, you feel devalued and dismissed, then it is unhealthy.

  • And his unwillingness to embrace it made you feel some kind of way, made you felt dismissed and devalued.

  • It's not any behavior, any conduct in a relationship that leaves people scared, unseen, unheard, invalidated, dismissed, minimized.

  • It's not any behavior, any conduct in a relationship that leaves people scared, unseen, unheard, invalidated, dismissed, minimized.

  • Sometimes they'll be repressed, sometimes they'll be dismissed, belittled, even turned into, as we might say in our own time, commodities.

  • After a poor performance review, he was dismissed from his position at the company.

  • The manager dismissing the employee's complaints was seen as unprofessional.

Synonyms

laid-off
vsdismissed
  • US
68 4.0

Without a job because the company reduced staff or closed

includes removals for personal or disciplinary reasons as well as business cuts
pink-slipped
vsdismissed
  • Informal
1 8.1

No longer working at a job because the company laid you off

applies to removal for any cause not only staff reduction
discharged
vsdismissed
4.1

No longer working for a company because they lost their job

is a more common, less formal term for the same loss of employment
fired
vsdismissed
2.2

A person who no longer has their job because their boss told them to leave

covers removal from work for any reason not only employer fault
terminated
vsdismissed
4.4

Ended so it does not continue

is specifically about losing work rather than any general ending

Antonyms

1.0

Having a paid job

3.8

Something a person still remembers, uses, or keeps

How Severe

fired
2.2
dismissed
3.2
to let go
852 3.8
laid-off
  • US
68 4.0

Surface Forms

dismissed positive

Etymology

Dismissed comes from the parts dis- 'away' and mit 'to send', the same root you can see in admit. So to be dismissed is to be 'sent away' from a job, which is why it means being 'fired' or no longer employed.