transitive. To dismiss or get rid of (a person, occasionally also an animal); to send away from one's presence; to exclude; (frequently) spec. to…

transitive. To remove or release (a person) from office or employment; to dismiss from a post, service, etc. Frequently with from (also †of). Cf…

To send away or remove from office, employment, or position; to discharge, discard, expel. Const. from, †of, and double object.

A payment to a person for service rendered. Formerly used widely, e.g. for the salary or fee paid to… at wage, under wages, ator of (a person's) wa…

transitive. To dismiss or discharge from employment, service, etc.; to deprive of an office or post. Also with of, from. Obsolete.

transitive. To send away, dismiss (a person); spec. to dismiss (a worker or servant) from employment (now rare); (now frequently) to refuse…

transitive. To dismiss from employment or service; to discharge. Now rare.

transitive. To cease to employ, dismiss from, or throw out of, employment.

transitive. To pay and discharge (an employee); to make a full payment to (a creditor). Also: to hand over the full remuneration for or cost of…

transitive. Nautical. To pay and discharge the crew of (a ship) upon completion of a commission; to decommission (a ship).

To cause (a person) to go or come out. transitive. To dismiss or eject (a person, a party, etc.) from office or employment.

transitive. To send away, order to go away, dismiss (a person); spec. to dismiss (a worker or servant) from employment (now rare). Cf. to turn away…

transitive. †To release, discharge (obsolete); to put an end to, kill. Cf. quietus, n.

To discharge (a liveried servant). Obsolete.

transitive. To carry or send off, turn out, dismiss.

(See quot. 1839.)

transitive. slang. To dismiss (a person) from a position or post. Now rare.

Originally dialect and U.S. To discontinue; to discontinue the working of; to dismiss (a workman), usually temporarily. Also intransitive, to take a…

slang. To ‘give the sack’ to; to dismiss or discharge (a person) from his employment or office. Chiefly passive. Also transferred and figurative…

euphemistic. To dismiss (a worker); also, to expel (a student). U.S.

In slang phrase to give (a person) the shoot: to dismiss from employment, sack; also transferred. So to get the shoot. Cf. boot, n.3 1c.

To dismiss, discharge (a person). Cf. sack, v.1 5a. Cf. bag, n. 19.

transferred in various slang uses. To dismiss or be dismissed from employment.

transitive. Originally U.S. slang. To dismiss (a person) from a job or position; to sack. Cf. hire and fire at hire, v. 1a.

To cause to desist or leave off from work; to discharge or dismiss from employment, to ‘lay off’.

transitive. To discharge suddenly from employment. U.S.

colloquial. to give (a person) the push: to throw out or dismiss, esp. from a job; to reject in a relationship. to get the push and variants: to…

to give (a person) the bootor the order of the boot: to ‘kick out’, dismiss, ‘sack’. So to get the boot.

colloquial. transitive. U.S. To displace, dispose of; to dismiss.

To dismiss. Australian slang. Cf. spear, n.1 2b.

to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register: to remove (that person's name) from the register of qualified practitioners and thereby…

transitive. Originally U.S. To dismiss (from employment), to sack.

To dismiss from employment; to sack. Australian slang.

transitive. To dismiss or discharge (a person) from a position; to fire. Cf. can, v.3 3a.

transitive. To dismiss (a person) from employment or office. Cf. pink slip, n. 2.

transitive. To discharge (an employee, esp. an executive) from a position; to ‘sack’ or ‘fire’.

transitive. Business. To alter (usually by reduction) the size of (a business operation or company) in order to accommodate changing demands…

Scottish colloquial. to give (a person) (hisor her) jotters and variants: to dismiss (a person) from a job or position.