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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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Judges & juries

Examples of dismissing

dismissing

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

Similarly, while dismissing neoliberal attempts to reformulate nationalism, he does not give them empirical content.
They respond to questions on this by quite rightly dismissing the topic as simply ruled out by known regulations.
There are at least two ways of dismissing the conservatism defeater.
On a different tack, however, it does seem to us that dismissing forms as exceptions on the basis of their small numbers is a mistake.
It seems to show that setting to higher values means dismissing too many moderately similar supertags from being used in smoothing.
Not mentioning the qualifications is not the same as dismissing them.
The global idealization that occurs in splitting is viewed as more extreme and less stable than the stable idealization that occurs in dismissing stances.
This means that predictions from preoccupation may have included adolescents with moderate levels of preoccupation within an overall secure or dismissing attachment organization.
As before, no significant effects were observed for a more insecure - dismissing attachment strategy using either directional or absolute difference scores.
For example, dismissing attachment was represented within both systems, and avoidant attachment primarily within the organized system.
Adults are assigned to one of three primary categories (dismissing, preoccupied, or autonomous) on the basis of qualitative characteristics of the narrative.
Instead of dismissing this 'disease' as pathological chaos, a better approach is to ask what motivated people to rebel.
They also claim the kin they choose, dismissing the recent past, for now, like a bad dream.
Fearful adults scored extremely low and significantly lower than preoccupied and dismissing adults on the histrionic and narcissistic dimensions.
Violent husbands were less likely to be classified as securely attached and more likely to be classified as dismissing and antisocial.
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