say it: lib-ur-AY-shuhn
liberation is a noun meaning "the act of liberating someone or something". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of liberating someone or something
the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for liberation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.