sack(JOB)mainly UK

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Firing staff
axe
be out on your earidiom
cast someone adriftidiom
chop
constructive dismissal
decertification
firing
get the pushidiom
give someone the heave-hoidiom
heave-ho
invalid someone out
relieve
relieve someone of something
removal
remove
retire
rightsize
rightsizing
terminate
termination

dismissverb (SEND AWAY)

[ T ]
to formally ask or order someone to leave: 遣散;解散
The professor dismissed the class early because she had a meeting.教授因为要去开会而提前下课。
[ T ]
When a judge dismisses a court case, he or she formally stops the trial, often because there is not enough proof that someone is guilty: （常指法官因证据不足而）驳回，不受理
The defending lawyer asked that the charge against his client be dismissed.辩护律师请求驳回对其委托人的指控。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Evicting and forcing to leave
boot someone off (something)
boot someone out (of something)
bump
chuck
chuck someone out
clear someone off something
clearance
dislocated
extraditable
extradite
extradition
fling something/someone out
flush someone/something out
ship
ship someone off
show someone the dooridiom
slam dunk
sling someone out
smoke
throw

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Judges & juries

dismiss | American Dictionary

dismiss
verb[ T ]
us/dɪsˈmɪs/

dismissverb[T] (NOT CONSIDER)

to decide that something or someone is not important and not worth considering:
Let’s not dismiss the idea without discussing it.

dismissverb[T] (SEND AWAY)

to formally ask or order someone to leave:
The teacher dismissed the class early.
Someone who is dismissed from a job is officially told not to work at that job any longer.

dismiss | Business English

dismiss
verb[ T ]
uk /dɪˈsmɪs/us
HR, WORKPLACE
to remove someone from their job, especially because they have done something wrong:
dismiss sb for sthSalespeople may be dismissed for many reasons, the most common of which is poor performance.
dismiss sb from sthHe was dismissed from his job for 'serious misconduct'.
LAW
to formally stop a trial in a court of law, often because there is not enough proof that someone is guilty:
dismiss charges/a case/a lawsuitThe company has asked the judge to dismiss the case saying that the claim it stole trade secrets is not legally well-founded.
to decide that something or someone is not important and not worth considering:
dismiss claims/complaints/concernsHe dismissed claims by members of the union that the layoffs are motivated by budgetary concerns.
dismiss reports/speculation/talkThe chairman dismissed talk of a merger with the rival company.

Examples of dismiss

dismiss
The suggestion of an alliance can be dismissed.
To make matters worse, its chairman had not only expressed his opposition to multi-partyism but had also been dismissed as a judge for financial impropriety.
One had been dismissed and the remainder made redundant.
They have received little attention from historians, however, and usually are dismissed as trivial when discussed.
The ministers who were dismissed seemed unlikely to lead backbench revolts.
Can this be dismissed as the predictable response of unadventurous notables?
Having been dismissed as a kitchen maid, she harnesses her poetry to her teapot.
The relative incidence of adverse effects is, therefore, probably dose-related, although the concomitant effect of malaria during treatment cannot be dismissed.
Failure to be ready for this kind of thing is the main cause of our dismissing whole squadrons of our fellow-creatures as uninteresting or inferior.
They must, therefore, be dismissed as not being good in themselves, or not to any considerable degree.
Magistrates also had to state their reasons for dismissing a case.
He wrote spontaneously as the occasion required, and then dismissed the product from his mind.
Fearful adults scored extremely low and significantly lower than preoccupied and dismissing adults on the histrionic and narcissistic dimensions.
In addition, we also observed atypical associations between dismissing attachment representations, avoidant attachment relationships, and maternal sensitivity.
The rest (and they are many) are either discredited or dismissed.
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