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Dismissal vs Depose - What's the difference?

dismissal | depose |

As a noun dismissal

is the act of sending someone away.

As a verb depose is

to put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.

dismissal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of sending someone away.
  • (senseid)Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
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  • A written or spoken statement of such an act.
  • Release from confinement; liberation.
  • Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
  • (legal) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
  • (cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
  • depose

    English

    Verb

    (depos)
  • (literally) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
  • * Woodword
  • additional mud deposed upon it
  • To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
  • A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
  • * Prynne
  • a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed
  • (legal) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
  • (legal) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.
  • After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Depose him in the justice of his cause.
  • To take or swear an oath.
  • To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands

    Synonyms

    * declare

    Antonyms

    * restore

    Derived terms

    * deposable * deposal

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