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Definitions: DEMISSION |
DEMISSIONNoun1. Resignation of an office. 2. The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. |
Etymology: Demission \De*mis"sion\, noun. [Latin expression demissio, from demittere. See Demit.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abrogation | Dismissal, conge, demission; bounce; deposal, deposition; dethronement; disestablishment, disendowment; deconsecration; sack, walking papers, pink slip, walking ticket; yellow cover. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DEMISSION |
| Non-English Usage: "DEMISSION" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (demission, resignation). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dites non a Pompidou, non a sa politique de regression sociale et de demission nationale : union populaire pour le non.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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de demission lettre | 40 |
demission lettre | 8 |
demission | 6 |
de demission lettres | 2 |
de demission lettre modele | 2 |
demission lettre type | 2 |
demission lettre modele | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DEMISSION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dorëheqje (resignation), mënjanim (avoidance, detachment, elimination, retirement, stand off, swerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تنازل (abdicate, back down, cede, concede, concession, condescend, deign, disclaimer, give ground, give in, give up, part with, pass up, recede, recession, relinquish, renounce, renunciation, resignation, stand down, step down, surrender, transfer, waive, waiver, yield), إستقالة (departure, resignation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оставка (resignation, retirement), абдикация. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | demise. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فروتنی (Humility, Modesty), کناره گیری (Detachment, Renunciation, Resignation, Retreat), واگذاری (Abandon, Abandonment, Assignment, Bail, Cession, Conveyance, Resignation, Submission, Surrender), حقارت (Humility, Scorn), استعفاء (Breakaway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lemondás (abandonment, abdication, abnegation, cancellation, cession, disclaimer, regrets, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, self abnegation, surrender, waiver, waiver of a right). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | peletakan jabatan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emissionday demissão (abdication, boot, bounce, chuck, dismissal, dismission, displacement, lay off, resignation, resigns). (various references) demitere (dismissal), demisie (quit, resignation). (various references) сложение звания. (various references) otkaz (notice), odlazak u penziju. (various references) dimisión (abdication, notice, relinquishment, resignation, resigns). (various references) demission (resignation). (various references) tahttan çekilme (abdication of the throne), istifa (resignation, resigning, tender of resignation). (various references) складання повноважень, відставка (dismission, resignation, retirement), зречення (abdication, abjuration, abnegation, denial, repudiation, retraction), падіння (bathos, come down, cracker, downfall, drop, dropping, fall, falling, labefaction, subsidence, tumble, upset), деградація (cachexy). (various references) sự xin thôi việc, sự xin từ chức. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DEMISSION": demissions. (additional references) | |
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"DEMISSION" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: demesion, dismission, Edmiston. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "DEMISSION" (pronounced 'De*mis"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: missioned. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-m-n-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: dominies, emission, simonies. | |
-2 letters: dimness, domines, dominie, emodins, eonisms, insides, iodines, iodises, iodisms, ionised, ionises, meiosis, misdoes, misdone, missend, mission. | |
-3 letters: deisms, demons, denims, diesis, dismes, domine, donsie, emodin, enosis, eonism, eosins, essoin, idioms, imides, imines, indies, inside, iodine, iodins, iodise, iodism, ionise, mesons, mioses, miosis, missed, mondes, monied, monies, mossed, niseis, noesis. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-m-n-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: demissions, dimensions. | |
+2 letters: endomitosis, endomixises, impassioned, iridosmines, midsections, misdiagnose, misjoinders, missionized, readmission. | |
+3 letters: commissioned, decommission, diseconomies, disharmonies, disseminator, eudaimonisms, hemosiderins, milliseconds, misdiagnosed, misdiagnoses, preadmission, readmissions. | |
+4 letters: decommissions, deviationisms, dimensionless, disharmonizes, dissemination, disseminators, endometriosis, endosymbiosis, idiomaticness, misdirections, miseducations, mispositioned, mountainsides, preadmissions, reductionisms, unimpassioned. | |
+5 letters: animadversions, antimodernists, decommissioned, decompositions, demolitionists, densitometries, disseminations, domestications, endometritises, endoparasitism, hexosaminidase, misdescription, modernisations, pseudonymities, recommissioned, sedimentations. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01001101 01001001 01010011 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E M I S S I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004D 0049 0053 0053 0049 004F 004E |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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