dismissal

IPA: dɪsmˈɪsʌɫ

The act of sending someone away.
Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
A written or spoken statement of such an act.
Release from confinement; liberation.
Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
(law) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
(cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
(Christianity) The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service.

Examples of "dismissal" in Sentences

His accounts are first hand, eyewitness testimony, and your dismissal is the 'rhetoric' here.
And I will continue to think my dismissal is another mistake in a long series of unwise decisions.
I like your idea that this kind of dismissal is a way of pushing upsetting, dangerous fiction aside.
It has been suggested that the real reason for the dismissal is the handling of the Marcellus shale controversy.