Definition of Dismissed

1. Adjective. Having lost your job.

Exact synonyms: Discharged, Fired, Laid-off, Pink-slipped
Similar to: Unemployed

Definition of Dismissed

1. Verb. (past of dismiss) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dismissed

1. dismiss [v] - See also: dismiss

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dismissed

dismemberers
dismembering
dismemberings
dismemberment
dismemberments
dismembers
dismembrator
dismembrators
dismembre
dismembred
dismembring
dismes
dismiss
dismissal
dismissals
dismissed
dismisser
dismissers
dismisses
dismissest
dismisseth
dismissible
dismissing
dismission
dismissions
dismissive
dismissively
dismissiveness
dismist
dismoded

Literary usage of Dismissed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"Docketed and dismissed with costs, on motion of Mr. WK ... Docketed and dismissed Kenney, for defendant In error. with costs, on motion of Mr. William A. ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1915)
"Dismissed with costs, on motion of counsel for the appellant. ... Dismissed with costs, CABL OLIVEB, Plaintiff in Error, Y. STATE OF TEXAS. [No. 296. ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"BY the bankruptcy of the Plaintiff the suit becomes defective ; if not abated by or the bill to be dismissed ; whether with costs, Quare. ..."

4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1913)
"Prudence Taylor dismissed and recommended to the chh in Sos[?] The Widow Love Orcutt dismissed and recommended to the chh of Christ in Randolph. ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"BILL dismissed by one Co-Plaintiff as to himself with Costs, without the consent of the other (a). A MOTION was made by one Co-plaintiff, that the bill, ..."

6. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1884)
"His wife was dismissed from court. A masterly plan for a march into the heart of ... Marlborough was dismissed from his command, charged with peculation, ..."

7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"599, 33 SW 166, In which the court held as follows: "Where a bill to remove a cloud on the title to land is dismissed because plaintiff is not in possession ..."

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