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disruption

/dis-ruhp-shuhn/US // dɪsˈrʌp ʃən //

中断,干扰,混乱,破坏性

Related Words

interruption中断,中辍,中断事件,中断作用confusion混乱,迷惑,混乱局面,困惑disturbance骚乱,骚动,干扰,困扰disorder紊乱,无序,无秩序,无序的break突破,休息,断裂,断separation分离,分居,分开,离职severance遣散费,遣送费,遣散費,遣散agitation躁动,扰动,搅拌,搅拌器splitting分割,分拆,分裂,拆分

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundivision
Synonyms
interruption中断,中辍,中断事件,中断作用break突破,休息,断裂,断separation分离,分居,分开,离职severance遣散费,遣送费,遣散費,遣散splitting分割,分拆,分裂,拆分
nounturmoil
Synonyms
confusion混乱,迷惑,混乱局面,困惑disorder紊乱,无序,无秩序,无序的disturbance骚乱,骚动,干扰,困扰agitation躁动,扰动,搅拌,搅拌器

Examples

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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