单词 | disaffiliate |
释义 | disaffiliaten. A person who has become disaffiliated; one who has ended his or her affiliation to an organization, body, etc. ΚΠ 1956 Chicago Rev. 10 No. 1. 75 There is nothing in the disaffiliate's non-party position that prevents him from making common cause with partisans, as long as he is free to choose his issues and speak his mind. 1966 L. Braun Cat who could read Backwards ix. 112 Nino is a disaffiliate. 1999 Guardian 10 July (Saturday section) 6/4 Kidbrooke does seem to have transformed her from a mischievous rural tomboy into a trainee urban disaffiliate. 2012 Sociol. Perspectives 55 171 Roughly one-fourth of disaffiliates interviewed agreed that the statement ‘modern science proves religion is superstition’ represented part of their decision to leave religion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). disaffiliatev. 1. a. transitive. To end or remove the official connection of (a group, institution, individual, etc.) to an organization, body, etc.; to cancel the affiliation of. Frequently reflexive and in passive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate or isolate [verb (transitive)] > disaffiliate disaffiliate1863 1863 Punch 8 Aug. 54/2 The wretched Lodge of Foresters who ‘continued their festivities’ after the murder, will of course be dis-affiliated by the rest of the body. 1892 Woman's Herald 21 May 13/1 A good many [associations] did not send delegates to yesterday's gathering, but only eleven have formally disaffiliated themselves. 1948 Times 22 Apr. 2/2 The Watford Divisional Liberal Association had been disaffiliated from the Liberal Party organization. 1989 New Mexican (Santa Fe, New Mexico) 23 July a2/1 The Roswell Girls Club board of directors voted to disaffiliate the club from the policy but to remain affiliated with the national organization. 2010 Financial Times 20 Sept. 42/1 Mumbai's SP Jain Institute of Management & Research..grew out of Bombay University, but disaffiliated itself to ensure its own academic freedom. b. intransitive. To end an affiliation; to cease to be an affiliate of an organization, body, etc.; to separate from. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate [verb (intransitive)] > cancel an affiliation disaffiliate1887 1887 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 57 368/2 They cannot disaffiliate unless certain things have occurred; but they have disaffiliated without observing the conditions. 1947 N.Y. Times 13 Dec. 1/3 The scrap of white paper..bore this laconic message in Mr. Lewis' characteristically bold handwriting in blue pencil: Green AFL. We disaffiliate. Lewis. 1985 I. Katznelson & M. Weir Schooling for all (1988) iv. 117 The union agreed to disaffiliate from organized labor. 2013 Labour Hist. 105 105 The Printers union, for example, had disaffiliated from the NSW Labor Council in 1918. 2. transitive (reflexive) and intransitive. More generally: to put an end to any hitherto important relationship or association; to distance oneself from or cease to align oneself with a group, lifestyle, ideology, etc. Cf. affiliate v. 6. ΚΠ 1948 Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil 5 Jan. 4/2 That's one of those fads... Don't (to a colleague) infatuate yourself with that. Then you won't have to disaffiliate yourself. 1958 20th Cent. Lit. 4 96/2 Salinger's heroes attempt..to disaffiliate themselves from the public world. 1981 E. Goffman Forms of Talk v. 277 Other faults are very much a question of discretion, namely, what the announcer himself wants to disaffiliate himself from. 2014 Times (Nexis) 23 Sept. 29 Far higher numbers of Jews are disaffiliating from religious communal life altogether, and describe themselves as being..‘secular/cultural’ Jews. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1956v.1863 |
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