0 to allow someone officially to leave somewhere, especially a hospital or a law court:
Patients were discharged from the hospital because the beds were needed by other people.
More than half of all prisoners discharged are reconvicted within two years.
UK A peace protester was conditionally discharged for twelve months (= allowed to go free only if they do not commit a crime again for this period of time).
2 to perform a task, especially an official one:
4 official permission to leave the armed forces, a prison, or a hospital:
The soldier received a dishonourable discharge for a disciplinary offence.
UK The judge gave him a one-year conditional discharge.
6 the performance of duties or payment of money that is owed:
the discharge of his duties
[ I ] A gun accidentally discharged.
11 to perform a duty, esp. an official one:
He continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund.
12 the act of asking or allowing someone to leave a place, esp. a job:
13 the act of sending a liquid or gas out of something, or the substance that comes out:
14 to give someone an official order or legal permission to end their duty in the army, a court, a prison, etc.:
15 if a company or organization discharges an employee, it makes them leave their job:
discharge sb for sth Several of the directors were later discharged for mismanaging shareholder funds.
16 to give a bankrupt person legal permission to stop owing a particular debt:
17 to pay the total amount owed for a debt, loan, payment, etc.:
18 to do an official task or duty:
discharge a duty/responsibility/obligation
19 if a business or factory discharges gas, chemicals, liquid waste, etc., it sends these substances into the air or water:
20 to take goods off a ship or plane or to allow passengers to get off:
21 the end of a debt, or an official order that ends someone’s duty to pay a debt:
Bankrupts must undergo credit counselling before receiving a discharge of their debts.
loan discharges and cancellations
22 a waste substance that is sent into the air or water from a factory or business:
24 an official order or legal permission to leave your duty in the army, a court, a prison, etc.:
26 the job or activity of getting goods or passengers off a ship or plane:
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