MEANING
1. The formal ending or breaking up of an organization, partnership, or legal arrangement.
2. The process in which a substance becomes dispersed in a liquid to form a solution.
Use it for
describing the formal end of an organization; distinguishing suspension from termination; analyzing how an agreement or political body ceases to existDistinguishes ending an organized entity from dissolving a substance into a liquid. Academic functions: Change / Pattern / Trend.
Words that belong together
- the dissolution of parliament
- dissolution of a partnership
- the dissolution of an organization
On the page
The dissolution of the coalition did not immediately end cooperation among its former members.
The agreement specifies the conditions for dissolution of the partnership.
The procedure records the rate of dissolution rather than the temperature at which the solid melts.
Stirring can affect how quickly dissolution proceeds under the stated conditions.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- dissolution
Usage notes
Usually uncountable; countable dissolution/dissolutions for particular legal endings or dissolving events. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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