🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

demissão

Pronunciation / Transliteration: demissão

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dismissal/dɪˈsmɪs.əl/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A demissão dele pegou todos de surpresa."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The act of ordering or allowing someone to leave; official discharge from employment.

    "His unfair dismissal from the company led to a major labor dispute."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb dismiss, originating from Old French desmiser, and ultimately from Latin dimittere, meaning 'to send away' or 'disband'. Over centuries, the legal and employment senses evolved to specifically denote the official termination of an employee's service.

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