The strike caused widespread disruption.disruptiondis‧rup‧tion /dɪsˈrʌpʃən/ ●●○ noun [countable, uncountable] 
The strike caused widespread disruption.disruption to There will be some disruption to traffic while the work is in progress.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The strike caused widespread disruption to flight schedules.
- Except in very specific cases Sidonius's attitudes and style encourage the reader to see continuity where there may have been disruption.
- For sure she creates disruption, signifies abnormality, and incites lewdness in others.
- Such speech is still protected by the First Amendment unless it causes substantial disruption or interferes with the rights of others.
- There had been loss of shipping and sales of overseas assets, but there was no great disruption and dislocation.
- This is the altitude-related disruption of your autonomic breathing during sleep.
- To support such action, officials would have to show that the publications caused or would probably cause substantial and material disruption.
- Yet the disappointed applicant had an unfettered right to extend the period of disruption by appealing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The strike caused widespread disruption.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a situation in which something is prevented from continuing in its usual way: The strike caused widespread disruption.· Floods caused chaos across much of the country.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· This will cause economic disruption comparable with a hike in oil prices or interest rates.
· Whatever one's political leanings, the threat of serious disruption from the miners, union seemed quite evidently an ideological hangover.· First, it is clear that psychotic illness involves, if nothing else, a serious disruption of brain activity.· Under Chatichai such unions had wielded considerable power and had caused serious disruption to the government's privatization plans.
· The accident, which left wreckage spread over a wide area, blocked the road causing severe traffic disruption.· There was severe disruption to the gas, water and electricity supplies; the schools had all but disappeared.· The severe disruption to the samian industry in Central Gaul caused an immediate diminution in high grade pottery production.· The protesters have also staged go-slows and traffic disruptions on motorways, and caused severe disruption in Edinburgh and Liverpool.
· In addition, social disruption and discontent are said to be fostered by temporary visitors, and ghost communities may be created out-of-season.· They very often impose large-scale social and environmental disruption on a society.
· The Court ruled that such speech could be punished even if it was not legally obscene and did not cause substantial disruption.· Such speech is still protected by the First Amendment unless it causes substantial disruption or interferes with the rights of others.· To support such action, officials would have to show that the publications caused or would probably cause substantial and material disruption.· Can a teacher be punished if his or her use of approved materials causes substantial disruption in the community?· The Tinker test would favor the students as long as there was no substantial or material disruption of schooling.
VERB· Some parents moved their children to rural areas to avoid the disruption and continue their schooling.· In order to avoid disruption of visitor's enjoyment, the work will be completed during the winter months.· Second, governments have desired to avoid the politically damaging disruption of the network by industrial action.· Routine maintenance work is often carried out in the early hours at the centre when workmen can avoid causing disruption to shoppers.
· The one day strike will close many government offices causing massive disruption.· Such speech is still protected by the First Amendment unless it causes substantial disruption or interferes with the rights of others.· As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims.· Not according to a Texas case where officials prohibited armbands because they expected those who opposed the armbands to cause disruption.· Only minutes before the final whistle, Halliday weaved his way infield, causing the disruption from which Morris was to score.· Can a teacher be punished if his or her use of approved materials causes substantial disruption in the community?· At the time of the shooting the students were not rioting or causing civil disruption.· Can educators regulate the contents of school-sponsored publications or plays even if they do not cause disruption?
· Change without unity would lead to disruption and chaos.· Can officials always restrict symbols that might lead to disruption?· These could easily lead to the disruption of overseas markets and sources of raw materials.
· If you are considering going on secondment during term time it is obviously important to minimise disruption to the teaching programme.
The strike caused widespread disruption.disruption to There will be some disruption to traffic while the work is in progress.