disengagement
disengagement
Definition
dis·en·gage·ment (-in gāj′mənt)
noun
- a disengaging or being disengaged
- freedom from obligation, occupation, etc.; ease; leisure
- withdrawal from a stated policy, previous involvement or position, etc.; specif., withdrawal of military forces, political influence, etc. from an area
disengagement
Synonyms
disengagement
n.
Rest
Detachment
severance, withdrawal, disentanglement; see division 1, freeing, separation 1.
disengagement
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- tackle: Effective work-related learning experiences can help tackle youth disengagement.
- grow: It brings out the growing disengagement with formal politics, and makes 30 important recommendations for change.
- address: If politicians want to address political disengagement they must be prepared to take the steps that reach out to the politically disengaged.
Adjective modifier
- political: Political disengagement is a more general problem, which is deeply corrosive of public life.
- moral: Differences lie in the way in which individuals choose to commit moral disengagement.
- British: The price would be obvious - an open handed American welcome for British disengagement from the European project.
- public: Changing the electoral system would do little to address these more fundamental catalysts of public disengagement.
- complete: Neither complete disengagement between church and state, nor complete identification of church with the state, will work for Methodists.
Modifies a noun
- plan: Instead, we are left arguing whether the disengagement plan is consistent with the process at all.
- process: Prime Minister: Yes, but part of the disengagement process is to get rid of 7,000 settlers in the Gaza.
Noun used with modifier
- voter: The practice of our politics Of course it is for each individual party to frame its own response to the challenge of voter disengagement.
Possessives
- people: This can be clearly seen in the rapid and disturbing growth of young people's disengagement from the electoral and political system.
Preposition: of
- force: Limited disengagement of forces in areas where forces are in direct contact.
Preposition: from
- politics: This snapshot of Basildon reflects a wider disengagement from politics in Britain.
- education: YWCA has consistently urged government agencies to recognize the pivotal role disengagement from education can play in teenage pregnancy.
- process: Undoubtedly, there is profound disengagement from political processes.
- service: This, in part, explains the disengagement from services.
Preposition: with
- politics: Might even lead one to support the view of disengagement with politics.
Browse dictionary entries near disengagement
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