0 present participle of dismiss
1 to decide that something or someone is not important and not worth considering:
2 to remove someone from their job, especially because they have done something wrong:
He has been dismissed from his job for incompetence.
The M.P.'s speech was dismissed by her opponents as crude electioneering.
The call for a one-day national strike was dismissed as gesture politics.
The prime minister's proposal was immediately dismissed as a back door tax increase.
Rumours that they are about to marry have been dismissed as pure speculation.
He dismissed Bryan as nothing more than an amateur.
Similarly, while dismissing neoliberal attempts to reformulate nationalism, he does not give them empirical content.
They respond to questions on this by quite rightly dismissing the topic as simply ruled out by known regulations.
There are at least two ways of dismissing the conservatism defeater.
