dismissals
- 1Plural of dismissal.
A wave of dismissals followed the merger as overlapping departments were combined.
The judge recorded two dismissals before the afternoon recess.
Note
A regular -s plural, and the useful question is when it is available at all. Every meaning of dismissal works both as a mass noun and as a count noun: an employee can face dismissal, or a company can carry out three dismissals. The plural belongs only to the counted use, such as separate firings, rejected claims or written notices. The abstract idea of being sent away or disregarded stays singular.
dismissals is a form of dismissal
dismissal, noun: The act or process of being fired from a job or stripped of rank or office. Full entry
- Forms
- dismissaldismissals plural
- Spelling
- dismissal → dismissals: add -s
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