an act or instance of dismissing.

the state of being dismissed.

a spoken or written order of discharge from employment, service, enrollment, etc.

noun

acceptance , appointment , employment , hiring , maintainance , retention , welcome

noun

adjournment , banishment , bounce , brush-off , cold shoulder * , cong , deportation , deposal , deposition , discharge , dislodgment , displacement , dispossession , dissolution , door * , end , eviction , exile , exorcism , expatriation , expulsion , freedom , freeing , housecleaning , kiss-off , layoff , liberation , marching orders * , notice , old heave-ho , ostracism , ouster , permission , pink slip * , relegation , removal , suspension , termination , ejectment , cashiering , conge , deprivation , dismission , disregard , divestiture , heave-ho , leavetaking , manumission , marching orders , nunc dimittis , release , waiver