Dismissal

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Dismissal may refer to:

• In litigation, a dismissal the result of a successful motion to dismiss. See motion (legal).
• In employment law, a dismissal is the termination of a contract of employment.
• In the sport of cricket, a dismissal is also known as taking a wicket or getting the batsman out. See dismissal (cricket).
• The Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 was commonly known as, and dramatised for television as, the Dismissal.
• In the sport of Association Football, a dismissal is the expulsion of a player from the field of play by the referee for serious misconduct.
• At church services, the dismissal is the final benediction given at the end of the service.
• In Eastern Orthodox liturgics, the dismissal hymn (apolytikion) is the troparion of the day.

Related words, such as "dismissed" could mean:

• Dismissed (TV series).
• Dismissed, an episode of Power Rangers: SPD.
• Dismissed, a single released by ZOEgirl.

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