MEANING
1. Disruption or displacement that prevents a system from working in its usual way or place.
2. An injury in which the connected bones of a joint move out of their normal position.
Use it for
describing structural disruption following economic change; explaining how established relationships or livelihoods are displaced; distinguishing systemic upheaval from a brief interruptionSpecifies disruptive displacement or breakdown of an established arrangement, not merely a temporary interruption. Academic functions: Change / Pattern / Trend, Causation / Relationships.
Words that belong together
- economic dislocation
- social dislocation
- dislocation of established relationships
On the page
The analysis traces the economic dislocation caused by the loss of a region’s principal employer.
The novel presents migration as a source of social dislocation rather than merely a change of address.
The sports review separates joint dislocations from fractures when comparing injury patterns.
A previous shoulder dislocation may affect how rehabilitation outcomes are interpreted.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- dislocation
Usage notes
Countable or uncountable noun: economic dislocation; a joint dislocation; plural dislocations. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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