disbandmentn.
/dɪsˈbandmənt/ The action or fact of disbanding or dispersing; dismissal from corporate existence.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > action of dispersing a body of people, etc.
disbanding1611
disbandment1720
society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > levying or mobilizing > disbanding
disordering1523
disbanding1611
cash1617
cashiering1629
reducing1646
reformation1668
reform1698
disbandment1720
demobilization1850
disembodiment1871
demob1918
1720 London Gaz. No. 5875/2 Full Pay allowed..for doing Duty after Disbandment.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 82 The very recent disbandment of that body guard of Popery the Jesuits.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. ii. iii. 113 The august Assembly..dare nowise resolve, with Mirabeau, on an instantaneous disbandment and extinction.
1864 Daily Tel. 3 Sept. The disbandment of the Basingstoke Rifles.
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