dismissed
Definition
- Adjective:
- Having lost your job; no longer employed: Describes the state of being terminated from employment, typically by an employer's decision.
Usage
- Used to describe a person whose employment has been formally ended.
- Often implies the termination was not voluntary on the part of the employee.
- Can be used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb).
Examples
- Adjective:
- The dismissed workers gathered their belongings and left the building.
- She felt anxious after being dismissed from her position last week.
- He is currently dismissed and looking for a new job.
Advanced Usage
- "Newly dismissed": Recently having lost one's job.
- The newly dismissed employees were offered career counseling.
- "Wrongfully dismissed": Terminated from employment in a manner that breaches a contract or law.
- She filed a lawsuit claiming she was wrongfully dismissed.
Variants and Related Words
- Dismiss (verb): To terminate someone from employment.
- The company decided to dismiss the entire department.
- Dismissal (noun): The act of dismissing someone or the state of being dismissed.
- His dismissal came as a complete shock to the team.
Synonyms
- Fired: (informal) Dismissed from a job.
- Terminated: Having one's employment ended.
- Laid off: Dismissed, often temporarily or due to company restructuring.
- Let go: Dismissed from employment.
Antonyms
- Employed: Having a paid job.
- Hired: Taken on as an employee.
- Retained: Kept in one's job.
Related Phrases
- To get the sack: (Idiom, informal) To be dismissed from a job.
- He got the sack for consistently being late.
- To be given one's marching orders: (Idiom) To be formally dismissed.
- After the merger, several managers were given their marching orders.
Adjective
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having lost your job
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