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übergehen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dismiss verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.

Senses

übergehen is used for these senses in English:

  • cut out (transitive) To remove; to omit.
  • dismiss (transitive) To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
  • subrogate (legal, transitive) To replace one person or thing with another.

dismiss — full definition

  1. verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.
  2. verb To refuse to take something seriously or to consider it worth thinking about.
  3. verb To tell someone they are free to leave.

Related German words