disrupter
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- noun
- /dɪsˈrʌptər/
- Jargon
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disruptor
- "Fanning was simply a pioneering disrupter who brought the music business to the brink of disaster."
- endocrine disrupters
Examples
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It's happening from new entrants or disrupters who offer excellent services or features that replace or substitute for the existing offering.
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The entrepreneur became a major disrupter in the retail industry by introducing a new online shopping model.
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We run a service business that also has a unique set of software-as-a-service tools and have created a market disrupter with very little competition.
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Bezos appeared on "Today" freshly named as Fortune's 2012 Businessperson of the Year for his role as the "ultimate disrupter."
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As tablets go more and more mainstream, I'd anticipate opportunities for new disrupters to enter, leveraging the browsing and discovery experience available there.
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As a leading disrupter in the tech world, she revolutionized how people connect with each other.
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His innovative ideas made him a recognized disrupter in the education sector, challenging traditional teaching methods.
Synonyms
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4.3
A person who creates new ideas or ways of doing things
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A person or company that causes big change in an industry
Antonyms
How Disruptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
disrupter = disrupt (semi-transparent) = dis + rupt + er
The suffix '-er' transparently forms a noun from 'disrupt', but the business sense of an innovator who transforms an industry is more specialized than a simple 'interrupter' reading.
Etymology
Disrupter comes from dis- ('apart') and rupt ('break'), the same root you see in interrupt and rupture. So a business disrupter is something that 'breaks apart' old ways and causes big change.