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disruption

[ dis-ruhp-shuhn ]

noun

  1. forcible separation or division into parts.
  2. a disrupted condition:

    After the coup, the country was in disruption.

  3. 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.



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  • predis·ruption noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of disruption1

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

He adds that given the disruption of coronavirus, it’s likely that dropout rates could be higher than average this year.

From Ozy

Amazon’s cloud service controls nearly half the global market, and takes much of the web down with it whenever it experiences disruptions.

From Quartz

Apple previously said on an earnings call that its upcoming iPhone 12 launch would be delayed by “a few weeks,” likely due to supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic.

From Fortune

Nor will these disruptions wait for the worst environmental changes to occur.

They weren’t particularly focused on all the things that come with scaling a business, such as limitless growth, total market disruption, and raising loads of professional money.

From Fortune

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.

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