disruptive
[dis-ruhp-tiv]
- causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- Business.
- relating to or noting a new product, service, or idea that radically changes an industry or business strategy, especially by creating a new market and disrupting an existing one: disruptive innovations such as the cell phone and the two-year community college.
- relating to or noting a business executive or company that introduces or is receptive to such innovation: disruptive CEOs with imagination and vision.
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Origin of disruptive
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Contemporary Examples
One of the most disruptive forces to the market in recent years is DISH.
New Innovations Let You Watch TV Anywhere You GoDecember 8, 2014
Uber and Airbnb—the most successful services of their kind—are “disruptive” innovations.
So she made changes that have transformed the Times online; is that what her critics mean when they allege she was disruptive?
The Hypocrisy Behind The New York Times’s Abrupt Decapitation of Jill AbramsonRobert Shrum
May 18, 2014
Cable news could be great conversation if it were willing to be disruptive.
But the track record of disruptive owners in Japan is pretty dismal.
Historical Examples
Which tendency is it that is acting as the present disruptive force in Europe?
The Fruits of VictoryNorman Angell
But its tendency when applied to governmental machinery is disruptive.
The disruptive forces, however, may be easily overestimated.
Stephen A. DouglasAllen Johnson
This disruptive coloration seems to be directly associated with the pebble-bottom, stream-inhabiting tadpoles.
Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus SmiliscaWilliam E. Duellman
Until the latter year it was purely a revolutionary movement, attracting to itself all the disruptive elements of its time.
German Culture Past and PresentErnest Belfort Bax
disruptive
- involving, causing, or tending to cause disruption
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Word Origin and History for disruptive
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