disciplinary
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6.1
- adjective
- /ˈdɪsəplɪˌnɛri/
- Formal
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disciplinario
- The university has strict disciplinary measures to ensure students adhere to the code of conduct.
- disciplinary action
- disciplinary suspension
- disciplinary procedures
It was not moral compass or disciplinary parents.
- It was not moral compass or disciplinary parents.
- If I remember correctly, he had a lot of disciplinary actions against him, correct?
- So you've got minimum low, medium Max all right, but you've got these disciplinary levels on each one too.
- It's like, lay yourself, lay a disciplinary structure on yourself, get the chaos in, in, in check.
- And and so he's attacked this with Wang Chishong, who, who, who runs the disciplinary committee.
- I had disciplinary problems and, and Jack and I used to talk about my disciplinary problems at night.
- And so dad then not knowing what to do, decided that he would use a hardwood floor plank as a disciplinary tool.
- Yes, there are people who have had faced extreme disciplinary actions and, and, and potentially worse, the death penalty.
- And then they can use that as evidence in the administrative or disciplinary proceeding to show that they were that bad.
- I'm going to be able to have a a disciplinary hearing and I will make my case and I will be able to continue teaching.
- So I was, I was, I was, I was the disciplinary problems from started in middle school.
- Whoever wins wins and whoever loses had to do a a, a, a challenge, a disciplinary action and cams.
- And he was taken to a, a full disciplinary with, with the chief constable and he was summarily dismissed.
- Yes, yes, Dwight Thomas made sure that we worked very hard in high school and he was a very strict disciplinary kind of a coach, kind of like a Jimmy Johnson.
Examples
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Any student caught cheating during the exam will face disciplinary action from the school.
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The teacher held a disciplinary meeting to address the students' behavior in class.
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Speaker, it goes without saying that if those rules were broken, then there will be disciplinary action for all those involved.
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A clear pattern of increasing disciplinary problems as a function of distance from home was revealed.
Academic text (1990) -
I was placed on final disciplinary probation.
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I'm going to be able to have a a disciplinary hearing and I will make my case and I will be able to continue teaching.
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Following are the behaviors that may result in suspension or other disciplinary action.
Fiction book (1998) -
Sam Burke was hit with a disciplinary probation just before the Christmas holidays.
Academic text (1992) -
The deans will be taking steps to ensure that students henceforth understand the disciplinary consequences of such actions.
Academic text (1991) -
Your byline accompanies an article criticizing the principal's disciplinary methods.
Synonyms
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7.0
That makes someone receive a penalty for breaking a rule
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6.5
Strict rules make people do the same things and limit their freedom
To make people follow rules and behave well
Causing someone to suffer for doing something wrong
Compounds
- Specialized
Work that uses methods and ideas from two or more subjects to study a problem
How Punitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
disciplinary = discipline (transparent) = discipline + ary
Formed by the common adjectival suffix '-ary' added to 'discipline' meaning enforcement or correction, so the relation is directly inferable.
Etymology
Disciplinary comes from the common word discipline, which comes from Latin disciplina meaning 'teaching' or 'training' and is related to disciple ('student'). Because it originally meant training someone to behave, disciplinary today often refers to actions that correct or punish misbehavior.