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disengagement

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or process of disengaging or setting free; a releasing or freeing; extrication.
  • noun The state of being disengaged or free.
  • noun Freedom from engrossing occupation; vacancy; leisure.
  • noun Freedom from constraint; ease; grace.
  • noun A manæuver in fencing. See disengage, transitive verb, 3.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.
  • noun Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun to break off a military action with an enemy
  • noun the act of releasing from an attachment or connection

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Examples

  • 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.

    Tower Hamlets: Labour produces its intriguing new mayoral shortlist 2010

  • 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.

    Matthew Yglesias » Time Is Not On Our Side 2010

  • 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.

    Underplayed Stories of the Day - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • 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.

    Hagel criticizes McCain over Iran comments 2008

  • “The disengagement is actually formaldehyde,” Weissglas told Haaretz.

    Grand Illusions 2007

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009 2009

  • “The disengagement is actually formaldehyde,” Weissglas told Haaretz.

    Grand Illusions 2007

  • “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 Minister for National Fears 2007

  • “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 Minister for National Fears 2007

  • I doubt there will be a peace agreement, but Israel will continue with its policy of unilateral disengagement from the West Bank.

    The Future of Hamas 2006

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