transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪsmɪs ]
( dismisses, dismissing, dismissed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you dismiss something, you decide or say that it is not important enough for you to think about or consider.
Mr Wakeham dismissed the reports as speculation...
I would certainly dismiss any allegations of impropriety by the Labour Party...
= discount
VERB : V n as n , V n
2.
If you dismiss something from your mind, you stop thinking about it.
I dismissed him from my mind...
‘It’s been a lovely day,’ she said, dismissing the episode.
= banish
VERB : V n from n , V n
3.
When an employer dismisses an employee, the employer tells the employee that they are no longer needed to do the job that they have been doing.
...the power to dismiss civil servants who refuse to work...
= sack, fire
VERB : V n
4.
If you are dismissed by someone in authority, they tell you that you can go away from them.
Two more witnesses were called, heard and dismissed...
VERB : be V-ed
5.
When a judge dismisses a case against someone, he or she formally states that there is no need for a trial, usually because there is not enough evidence for the case to continue.
An American judge yesterday dismissed murder charges against Dr Jack Kevorkian.
...their attempt to have the case against them dismissed.
VERB : V n , have n V-ed