This is the 9796th most frequent Portuguese word.
demitidos
"Fired" or "dismissed" (people who lost their jobs).
Here, 'demitidos' is an adjective describing the employees who were dismissed.
Os funcionários demitidos receberam uma compensação justa.
The dismissed employees received fair compensation.
In this sentence, 'demitidos' acts as a noun referring to the people who were dismissed.
Os demitidos lamentaram profundamente a perda de seus empregos.
The dismissed lamented deeply the loss of their jobs.
Here, 'demitidos' is part of a verb construction in the passive voice, indicating the action of dismissal upon the employees.