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To break off a military action with an enemy
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disengagement
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Wikipedia
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Disengagement ( Désengagement ) is a film directed by Amos Gitai , starring Juliette Binoche , with Jeanne Moreau in a supporting role. The film is a French/Italian/Israeli co-production, and was shot in France, Germany and Israel. It is the third film ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 release or detachment from a physical situation or other involvement. 2 The separation or release of a chemical. 3 (context dated English) leisure; relief from responsibility or onerous activities. 4 (context military politics English) withdrawal from ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s; see disengage + -ment .
WordNet
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n. the act of releasing from an attachment or connection [syn: detachment ] to break off a military action with an enemy [syn: fallback , pullout ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disengagement \Dis`en*gage"ment\, n. [Pref. dis- + engagement: cf. F. d['e]sengagement.] The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. --Transl. ...
Usage examples of disengagement.
The main tactic is closing with the enemy, finding his blade and using touches, disengagements and counterdisengagements to create an opening in his defenses.
There had to be a whole new scene, they said, and the only way to do it was to make the big move -- either figuratively or literally -- from Berkeley to the Haight-Ashbury, from pragmatism to mysticism, from politics to dope, from the hangups of protest to the peaceful disengagement of love, nature and spontaneity.
The most used of these disengagements is the cavazione or trade, the maneuver that permits one to exchange or switch sides on the opponent's sword, without making contact with it.
Each recruit unit made a mock cohort, and they practiced engagements, disengagements, squaring, flanking, and other maneuvers: first without weapons, and then with wooden swords and shields.
Gradually, in barely perceptible stages, I felt the gentle disengagements lassitude brings to the extremities.
Gradually, in barely perceptible stages, I felt the gentle disengagements lassitude brings to the extremities.
Instead of embrace, there was all too often a distancing gone mad, disengagement gone extreme, alienation and repression and dissociationall out of an understandable but ultimately insane aversion to anything that looked like "heteronomy.
This is the big one: I secured a concession from Dmitri Rykov that the ambit of the discussion need not exclude thermonuclear weapons, strategic weapons, inner space, international inspec-tion, tactical nuclear weapons, conventional weapons and manpower levels, or disengagement of forces along the Iron Curtain line.
Now, though, he was at a decided disadvantage, and during the next two passes Ruadan was able to draw blood both times, once in a slash that took his opponent on the shoulder, once in another draw-cut disengagement that brought his blade along his opponent's rib cage.
Kissinger squeezed a terrible price out of Golda for that disengagement in the north, and now that we have done our part and pulled back on the Golan Heights, the Syrians are fudging on releasing prisoners and returning the dead.
The dorsal and ventral handling tentacles gripped and immobilized, protecting the exposed laterals from sudden disengagement.