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Definitions for dismissed
dis·missed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. discharged, dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slippedadjective

    having lost your job

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  1. dismissed

    Dismissed generally refers to the act of officially or formally rejecting, canceling or removing someone or something. This could be in various contexts such as ending a court case, firing someone from a job, ignoring an idea or thought, or ending a class or meeting.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dismissed

    of Dismiss

Wikidata

  1. Dismissed

    Dismissed is a reality television show on MTV that premiered in 2001. One person simultaneously takes two others on a date. Each of the daters chooses a place to go, and the person running the date dismisses the person he/she likes the least. Each of the competing daters also has a time-out card. When used, the card allowed the competitor twenty minutes alone with his/her date. An international version called Globally Dismissed aired as well. It is essentially the same thing as the original show, except each person comes from a different country. Dismissed was revamped, and eventually replaced by the series Next. ⁕Reruns of Dismissed have started up again as of October 23, 2006.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'dismissed' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3236

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dismissed in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dismissed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of dismissed in a Sentence

  1. Lorenzo Napolitano:

    No 9-year-old should be handcuffed. No 9-year-old should be pepper-sprayed. No one's humanity should be dismissed because of a badge. No human should be treated like this, reform is needed. Reform can come, but only if we are willing to listen to this little girl crying out for the protection that she didn't receive from the Rochester Police.

  2. Ram Singh:

    He has challenged society and the judicial system. The death sentences handed down in this case should be carried out without delay and the appeals dismissed.

  3. Paul Archuleta/Getty Images:

    After more than a year to find evidence, Edelson dismissed the Illinois action without prejudice as to Erika and EJ Global LLC, while Edelson retains the right to re-fie in California, the dismissal of Erika from the federal lawsuit that triggered bankruptcies of Girardi Keese and Tom Girardi is extremely important. For example, the recent three-day evidentiary hearing in the Boeing case showed that Erika had ZERO role in what Girardi Keese and Edelson discussed, did, and did n’t do, whether as between each other or as to Girardi Keese and Tom Girardi clients. In fact, I ’m informed Erika’s name did n’t even come up at the hearing.

  4. Eric Schneiderman:

    He's taking it to New York's highest court for one more round of appeals, but no judge has dismissed this.

  5. John Glen:

    The fog is clearing ... We are already seeing progress, the EU have now recognized that there will be some form of market access in financial services having previously dismissed the idea.

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