liberation

liberation
    n 1: the act of liberating someone or something [syn:
         {liberation}, {release}, {freeing}]
    2: the attempt to achieve equal rights or status; "she worked
       for women's liberation"
    3: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to
       depart) [syn: {dismissal}, {dismission}, {discharge},
       {firing}, {liberation}, {release}, {sack}, {sacking}]
    

Liberation \Lib`er*a"tion\ (l[i^]b`[~e]r*[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L.
   liberatio: cf. F. lib['e]ration. Cf. {Livraison}.]
   The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
   [1913 Webster]

         This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from
         all prejudged system.                    --Pownall.
   [1913 Webster]
    

LIBERATION, civil law. This term is synonymous with payment. Dig. 50, 16, 
47. It is the extinguishment of a contract by which he who was bound 
become's free, or liberated. Wolff, Dr. de la Nat. Sec. 749. 
    

79 Moby Thesaurus words for "liberation":
      abstraction, annexation, appropriation, boosting, break, breakout,
      broad-mindedness, conversion, conveyance, deliverance, delivery,
      emancipation, embezzlement, emergence, enfranchisement,
      enfranchising, escape, escapism, evasion, extrication, filching,
      flight, fraud, free thought, freeing, freethinking, getaway, graft,
      issuance, issue, jailbreak, latitudinarianism, leak, leakage,
      liberalism, libertarianism, libertinism, lifesaving, lifting,
      loosing, open-mindedness, outlet, pilferage, pilfering, pinching,
      poaching, prisonbreak, ransom, recovery, redemption, release,
      releasing, rescue, rescuing, retrieval, riddance, salvage,
      salvation, saving, scrounging, setting-free, shoplifting,
      snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, swindle,
      swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, tolerance, toleration,
      unbigotedness, unchaining, unfettering, unshackling, vent