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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Firing staff
arse
axe
be out on your earidiom
cast someone adriftidiom
chop
constructive dismissal
decertification
elbow someone out
firing
get the pushidiom
give someone the heave-hoidiom
heave-ho
refire
relieve
relieve someone of something
removal
remove
rightsize
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
dislocated
expulsion
extraditable
extradite
extradition
fling something/someone out
flush
send someone packingidiom
ship
ship someone off
show someone the dooridiom
slam dunk
smoke
throw

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Examples of dismissed

dismissed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

They are central to who we are, and cannot simply be dismissed, decried, or ignored.
To better understand how rock critics frame their evaluations we can look at the critical discourse surrounding artists who are critically dismissed.
Surprised by disappointing turnouts, each rebel leader dismissed his followers homeward by dawn.
Imitation has tended to be dismissed as a rather low-grade activity having, almost by definition, no innovative content, but this is wrong.
Unfortunately all are dismissed in a couple of paragraphs.
They tend to be dismissed by the biologists.
At first some actually dismissed the speech as intended only for foreign consumption.
In other words, the complaint was dismissed because it was prematurely lodged.
It takes seriously evidence that is often dismissed as epiphenomenal by "materialist" scholars.
Because they do not fit the traditional model and no new model has been introduced, they tend to be dismissed as exceptions.
He dismissed the notion that women cannot effect change in men's character.
His non-social behaviour could be dismissed simply as symptoms of the disease.
Some simply dismissed such terms as meaningless and irrelevant.
Despite my reservations, this volume should not be immediately dismissed.
Indeed, voice experience should not be ' dismissed ' as symptoms of the illness, for which drugs alone can be used.
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