Definition of disbandment in English:
disbandment
noun dɪsˈban(d)m(ə)ntdɪsˈbæn(d)mənt
mass nounThe breaking up of an organized group.
the disbandment of the old army meant that they could start afresh
Example sentencesExamples
- The RHD promptly complied and announced its immediate disbandment.
- Despite the group's disbandment, the four members would still meet every month.
- The government will hope that it's on a path, however long, to disbandment.
- The Labour leader proposed a resolution, backed by all parties, calling for the disbandment of all paramilitary organisations.
- A meeting last week, called to vote on the disbandment of the committee, sounded the death knell for the organisation.
- Our local regiment has been earmarked for disbandment.
- Prior to the end of the Civil War, little thought was given to how the war would end, much less to the processes of disbandment.
- Garbage have scrapped their European tour amidst speculation of an imminent disbandment.
- The Army Board used as one of their reasons for disbandment a unit's recruiting and retention record in the last ten years.
- The only circumstances in which they could call in all outstanding debts would be in the event of their own disbandment.
Definition of disbandment in US English:
disbandment
noundisˈban(d)məntdɪsˈbæn(d)mənt
The breaking up of an organized group.
the disbandment of the old army meant that they could start afresh
Example sentencesExamples
- The only circumstances in which they could call in all outstanding debts would be in the event of their own disbandment.
- A meeting last week, called to vote on the disbandment of the committee, sounded the death knell for the organisation.
- The government will hope that it's on a path, however long, to disbandment.
- The RHD promptly complied and announced its immediate disbandment.
- Our local regiment has been earmarked for disbandment.
- The Labour leader proposed a resolution, backed by all parties, calling for the disbandment of all paramilitary organisations.
- Prior to the end of the Civil War, little thought was given to how the war would end, much less to the processes of disbandment.
- The Army Board used as one of their reasons for disbandment a unit's recruiting and retention record in the last ten years.
- Despite the group's disbandment, the four members would still meet every month.
- Garbage have scrapped their European tour amidst speculation of an imminent disbandment.