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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disruption
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cause chaos/disruption
▪ Floods caused chaos across much of the country.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ This will cause economic disruption comparable with a hike in oil prices or interest rates.
serious
▪ Whatever one's political leanings, the threat of serious disruption from the miners, union seemed quite evidently an ideological hangover.
▪ First, it is clear that psychotic illness involves, if nothing else, a serious disruption of brain activity.
▪ Under Chatichai such unions had wielded considerable power and had caused serious disruption to the government's privatization plans.
severe
▪ The accident, which left wreckage spread over a wide area, blocked the road causing severe traffic disruption.
▪ There was severe disruption to the gas, water and electricity supplies; the schools had all but disappeared.
▪ The severe disruption to the samian industry in Central Gaul caused an immediate diminution in high grade pottery production.
▪ The protesters have also staged go-slows and traffic disruptions on motorways, and caused severe disruption in Edinburgh and Liverpool.
social
▪ In addition, social disruption and discontent are said to be fostered by temporary visitors, and ghost communities may be created out-of-season.
▪ They very often impose large-scale social and environmental disruption on a society.
substantial
▪ The Court ruled that such speech could be punished even if it was not legally obscene and did not cause substantial disruption.
▪ Such speech is still protected by the First Amendment unless it causes substantial disruption or interferes with the rights of others.
▪ To support such action, officials would have to show that the publications caused or would probably cause substantial and material disruption.
▪ Can a teacher be punished if his or her use of approved materials causes substantial disruption in the community?
▪ The Tinker test would favor the students as long as there was no substantial or material disruption of schooling.
■ VERB
avoid
▪ Some parents moved their children to rural areas to avoid the disruption and continue their schooling.
▪ In order to avoid disruption of visitor's enjoyment, the work will be completed during the winter months.
▪ Second, governments have desired to avoid the politically damaging disruption of the network by industrial action.
▪ Routine maintenance work is often carried out in the early hours at the centre when workmen can avoid causing disruption to shoppers.
cause
▪ The one day strike will close many government offices causing massive disruption.
▪ Such speech is still protected by the First Amendment unless it causes substantial disruption or interferes with the rights of others.
▪ As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims.
▪ Not according to a Texas case where officials prohibited armbands because they expected those who opposed the armbands to cause disruption.
▪ Only minutes before the final whistle, Halliday weaved his way infield, causing the disruption from which Morris was to score.
▪ Can a teacher be punished if his or her use of approved materials causes substantial disruption in the community?
▪ At the time of the shooting the students were not rioting or causing civil disruption.
▪ Can educators regulate the contents of school-sponsored publications or plays even if they do not cause disruption?
lead
▪ Change without unity would lead to disruption and chaos.
▪ Can officials always restrict symbols that might lead to disruption?
▪ These could easily lead to the disruption of overseas markets and sources of raw materials.
minimise
▪ If you are considering going on secondment during term time it is obviously important to minimise disruption to the teaching programme.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The strike caused widespread disruption to flight schedules.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Except in very specific cases Sidonius's attitudes and style encourage the reader to see continuity where there may have been disruption.
▪ For sure she creates disruption, signifies abnormality, and incites lewdness in others.
▪ Such speech is still protected by the First Amendment unless it causes substantial disruption or interferes with the rights of others.
▪ There had been loss of shipping and sales of overseas assets, but there was no great disruption and dislocation.
▪ This is the altitude-related disruption of your autonomic breathing during sleep.
▪ To support such action, officials would have to show that the publications caused or would probably cause substantial and material disruption.
▪ Yet the disappointed applicant had an unfettered right to extend the period of disruption by appealing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disruption

Disruption \Dis*rup"tion\, n. [L. disruptio, diruptio.] The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disruption

early 15c., from Latin disruptionem (nominative disruptio) "a breaking asunder," noun of action from past participle stem of disrumpere "break apart, split, shatter, break to pieces," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + rumpere "to break" (see rupture (n.)).

Wiktionary
disruption

n. 1 An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something. 2 A continuing act of disorder

WordNet
disruption

  1. n. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks" [syn: break, interruption, gap]

  2. a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: disturbance, commotion, stir, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle]

  3. an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity [syn: dislocation]

  4. the act of causing disorder [syn: perturbation]

Wikipedia
Disruption

Disruption or Disruptive may refer to:

  • Cell disruption is a method or process in cell biology for releasing biological molecules from inside a cell
  • Disruption (adoption) is also the term for the cancellation of an adoption of a child before it is legally completed
  • Disruption (film), a 2014 Columbian documentary film by Pamela Yates
  • Disruption of 1843, the divergence of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland
  • Disruption (of schema), in the field of computer genetic algorithms
  • Disruption, a method of disabling an explosive device by using projected water disruptors
  • Disruptive behavior disorders, a class of mental health disorders
  • Disruptive innovation, Clayton Christensen's theory of industry disruption by new technology or products
  • Disruptive physician, a physician whose obnoxious behaviour upsets patients or other staff
Disruption (adoption)

Disruption is ending an adoption. While technically an adoption is disrupted only when it is abandoned by the adopting parent or parents before it is legally completed (an adoption that is reversed after that point is instead referred to in the law as having been dissolved), in practice the term is used for all adoptions that are ended (more recently, among families disrupting, the euphemism "re-homing" has become current). It is usually initiated by the parents via a court petition, much like a divorce, to which it is analogous.

While rarely discussed in public, even within the adoption community, the practice has become far more widespread in recent years, especially among those parents who have adopted from Eastern European countries, particularly Russia and Romania, where some children have suffered far more from their institutionalization than their parents were led to believe.

Usage examples of "disruption".

And because disruptions would count against Acorus in deciding which world would succeed Ifryn in power and glory?

Of their three suspects, the Bonapartist had the best motive for creating disruptions.

Now the only problem was, which of these two, Wallmeyer and Colville, would cause less disruption in the Nagy household.

While the Concerns screamed bloody murder at the prospect of Haluk trade disruption, the tabloid media would joyfully fan the flames of controversy.

Beauty of ganglial extension is no disruption to existing functionality!

Materials advocating violence, destruction of property, disruption of Grids, anti-O.

Rupert Inkman, Groutch chief of station of the famed and feared Commission to Repel Unbridled Disruption!

You see, when Obie felt that disruption in space-time, we first checked on the Well World to see if the master computer was damaged.

Thus it may truly be said of him not only that under his guidance the republic was saved from disruption and the country was purified of the blot of slavery, but that, during the stormiest and most perilous crisis in our history, he so conducted the government and so wielded his almost dictatorial power as to leave essentially intact our free institutions in all things that concern the rights and liberties of the citizens.

Interspersed among all of the various types of wards were a series of spell traps, killing spells, and alarms that would be triggered by the disruption of a ward.

But in this instance there was a truth congruent to the anthropomorphic effect: the cosmic disruption caused by the materialization of Paradise on the earthly plane brought about the day of judgment, allowed hell to be hauled up from wherever it rested on seventy thousand volts or ropes.

For the most part, the Yuuzhan Vong suicide squads were forcing the pilots to hit the same area, and the largest detonations were already causing forks of disruption static to dance across the shield.

That would explain both their fear of using it, and their conviction that it cannot undo the disruptions it causes in the timeline.

If it becomes necessary to strand anyone in the past, we would create exactly the overlapping time disruptions about which the Shechenag warned us.

But if it is permitted, we wish to observe the completion of the blocking sphere to assure our leaders that no further disruptions will occur in the timestream.