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# disruption

«disruption» in Mova's school dictionary: **something that stops a thing from going on normally** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (disruption, disruptions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Disruption is something that stops a thing from going on normally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruption/#m1)

2) A disruption is one such interruption. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruption/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

School behaviour (disruption in class), travel (disruption to trains), weather and news.

### examples

- The snow caused disruption to the buses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruption/#x1)
- Talking caused disruption in the lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruption/#x2)
- There may be disruption on the trains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruption/#x3)
- The fire alarm was a big disruption. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruption/#x4)
- We apologise for the disruption. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruption/#x5)
- Road works mean disruption for drivers this week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruption/#x6)

### note

Verb: disrupt; adjective: disruptive.

### In the corpora

- [In the UK a strike is legal after a vote, and the disruption is deliberate so that people notice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disruption» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruption/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.