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disruption

[ dis-ruhp-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

forcible separation or division into parts.
a disrupted condition:
After the coup, the country was in disruption.
Business. a radical change in an industry, business strategy, etc., especially involving the introduction of a new product or service that creates a new market:
Globalization and the rapid advance of technology are major causes of business disruption.

First recorded in 1640–50; from Latin disruptiōn-, stem of disruptiō; equivalent to disrupt + -ion

Excerpted from Moneyball for Government, published by Disruption Books, and reprinted with permission.

Just as there are real rules why global climate disruption is likely causing more floods than usual.

Some are genuinely aggrieved by the disruption caused to the transport system.

Even most oil companies acknowledge the disruption caused by strip mining; that is one reason why they have developed In Situ.

The Disruption Machine Jill Lepore, The New Yorker What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.

It was becoming others that by deputation they testified to their approval of the step taken at the great disruption.

What justifies the disruption requires a dissent from the civil power, as a power not of God.

His father—that iron gentleman—had long ago enthroned himself on the heights of the Disruption Principles.

The disruption, to Cunningham and his associates, was a political defeat, but it was even more than a moral victory.

From all quarters news was pouring in of the hopeless disruption of the power of the English after the Chasse de Patay.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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