disciplinary

[dis-uh-pluh-ner-ee]

adjective

1. of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline.

   disciplinary action.

disciplinary

/ ˈdɪsɪˌplɪnərɪ /

adjective

1. of, promoting, or used for discipline; corrective

2. relating to a branch of learning

   criticism that crosses disciplinary boundaries

Other Word Forms

• nondisciplinary adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of disciplinary¹

First recorded in 1575–85; discipline + -ary

Example Sentences

The Times reviewed a Los Angeles police report Doherty filed about the alleged attack along with DEA disciplinary records and internal e-mails.

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Relatives of the inmates’ victims are divided over altering regulations to ensure the convicts go to Florence, rather than to the mainline prisons their disciplinary records called for.

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He found that the decisions made by the disciplinary hearing manager and subsequent appeal hearing manager, who were both senior leaders and experienced reporters, were "reasonable".

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Party enforcers have taken down scores of senior officials as part of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s disciplinary purges.

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The disciplinary panel found Labrada guilty of planting the tracking device, and he resigned from the department.

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Related Words

• punitive