MEANING
1. An interruption or disturbance that prevents a process, system, or event from continuing as expected.
2. A major change in how an industry or market operates through new methods, business models, or technology.
Use it for
describing a break in an established process; analyzing effects of interruptions on participation or performance; distinguishing temporary disturbance from permanent collapseSeparates interruption of an established process from a major change in how a market operates. Academic functions: Change / Pattern / Trend.
Words that belong together
- disruption to services
- disruption of routines
- supply-chain disruption
On the page
The study examines how disruption to transport affected access to examinations.
Temporary disruption of a routine need not produce lasting institutional change.
The report distinguishes incremental product improvement from disruption of the distribution model.
A new platform may claim disruption without demonstrating a lasting change in market structure.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- disruption
Usage notes
Countable or uncountable: disruption, disruptions. Usually disruption of/to + process. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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