🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Entlassung

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Entlassung

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
dismissal/dɪˈsmɪsəl/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die Entlassung kam für ihn völlig unerwartet."

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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

Late Middle English: from Old French descens-, stem of descendre, or Latin dismittere 'send away', from dis- 'apart' + mittere 'send'.

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