disengagement

IPA: dɪsɪngˈeɪdʒmʌnt

noun

  • Release or detachment from a physical situation or other involvement.
  • The release or separation of a chemical.
  • (dated) Leisure; relief from responsibilities or onerous activities.
  • (military, politics) Withdrawal from combat, confrontation, or the assertion of influence.
  • Termination of an agreement to be married.
  • (fencing) A circular movement of the blade that blocks an opponent's parry.
  • (medicine, obstetrics) The emergence of the fetus from the birth canal.
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Examples of "disengagement" in Sentences

  • “The disengagement is actually formaldehyde,” Weissglas told Haaretz.
  • I doubt there will be a peace agreement, but Israel will continue with its policy of unilateral disengagement from the West Bank.
  • Underachievement often leads to unemployment and long-term disengagement, which is a vicious cycle and it is difficult to come out from such an entrapment.
  • Such comments from a well-respected Republican member of Congress like Sen. Hagel demonstrate how unpopular the Bush policy – and McCain strategy – of disengagement is among Americans -- even Republican.
  • Marx wrote in German “Idiotismus” rather than the usual word for idiocy, which is “Idiotie”, and probably meant it in the original Greek sense of disengagement from the public sphere rather than stupidity.
  • “The one consensus on which this government was built was disengagement from the West Bank, and it has become irrelevant,” says Lev Grinberg, a political sociologist at Ben-Gurion University, in Beersheba.
  • The authors of the report appropriately place primary blame for the breakdown in professionalism on former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales, who showed a breathtaking disengagement from the process of disposing of nine presidential appointees.
  • ELIBIARY: Well, it's -- in my experience, it has been more of an art than it is a science, because, just like there is no single path to radicalization, I'm personally a bigger fan of using the word disengagement vs. de-radicalization, because radicalization is essentially not violent extremism or terrorism.

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