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dismiss someone (from something ) (for something) to discharge someone from employment for some reason; to fire someone from a job for some cause. We will have to dismiss him from employment for absenteeism. She was dismissed from the bank for making many errors in one month. dismiss something as something to put something out of one's mind or ignore something as something. (The second something can be a noun or an adjective.) I dismissed the whole idea as foolishness. It was not possible to dismiss the whole matter as a one-time happening. Molly dismissed the whole event as accidental. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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After all, rational people don't waste their time complaining about utterly dismissible junk (except, of course, for TV critics). While he will never be placed in the first rank of poets and even his admirers admit that he authored much dismissible verse, Whittier, who enjoyed wide, trans-Atlantic fame in his lifetime and whose eightieth birthday was a national event, has earned a lasting place in American letters. Older taxes would have been (and still are) dismissible through bankruptcy court. |
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