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The military coup brought further disruption to a country already struggling with famine.
The strike brought severe disruption to flights over the holiday weekend.
Further disruption is expected later tonight when more heavy snow is expected.
We apologize for the disruption while essential motorway repairs are being carried out.
Some medications can disrupt hormone levels; the effects of this disruption can include an impaired attention span or behavioral problems.
The industry was ripe for disruption using peer-to-peer technology.

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disruption | Business English

disruption
noun[ C or U ]
uk /dɪsˈrʌpʃən/us
an interruption in the usual way that a system, process, or event works:
It would cause a tremendous disruption to our work schedule to install a different computer system.
A crackdown on illegal-immigrant hiring could create widespread workplace disruptions.

Examples of disruption

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Returning to our original question, we must consider possible psychological mediators of hierarchy disruption.
The term refers to a disruption of interconnecting fibres that link spatially distributed regions in the brain.
Future research should pay particular attention to the disruption of values, roles and social relationships.
Older infants may be more likely to have moved around to different foster homes and thus to have suffered more disruptions than younger infants.
Functional disruption in the organization of the brain for reading in dyslexia.
Previous studies have suggested that mammalian spermatozoal chromatin is resistant to various physical and chemical disruptions.
For the sake of simplicity, marital disruption was considered only for the first marriage.
Towards the end of the eighteenth century, people began to see revolutions as emphatic disruptions of the past, as new points in a line.
This pattern of data is consistent with a possible dual route to cognitive disruption, one involving restraint the other involving emotion.
Only relatively small sectors of those economies were integrated into the national or international economies, and of those only some suffered serious disruption.
For example, antenatal appointments may need to be held close to school premises and timings changed to minimise disruption to the teenage woman's education.
Upon reaching the surface, the vacuoles were fused, leading to disruption of the apical region of syncytial tegument along the basement layer.
Disruption in the expression pattern of one of many cell cycle regulators would have a deleterious effect on developmental potential.
Churches and preachers were also acutely aware of the social disruption, disorientation and disorder that could result from such rapid change in society.
The country's dependence on imported merchandise made it vulnerable to supply disruptions, with shortages creating opportunities for ' profiteering ' by those with access to scarce goods.
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economic disruption
There is almost complete economicdisruption.
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