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Judicial termination of prosecution. In so many words criminal charges and dropped.

Dismissal (Wikipedia)

Dismissal or dismissed may refer to:

Dismissal (Wiktionary)

English

Etymology

From dismiss +‎ -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.

Pronunciation

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