disruptive
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- adjective
- /dɪsˈrʌptɪv/
- Specialized
- The start-up introduced a disruptive technology that transformed the way people communicate.
- disruptive innovation
- disruptive change
- disruptive technology
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Watch on YouTubeI put on my vision board disruptive technology.
- I put on my vision board disruptive technology.
- That's usually a good disruptive project to take on.
- So this is it's an extremely disruptive set of developments.
- And he said that's not the way to create a disruptive organization.
- We don't think about a Telegraph as being a amazingly disruptive new technology.
- And there's this idea that if you put a product on the market that's so disruptive, it will destroy the economy.
- He's a young CEO from the UK who founded the very disruptive global marketing agency called The Social Chain.
- But they ate them up because in Mark Zuckerberg words in a discovered e-mail, they could have been disruptive to us.
Examples
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SAGE members saw these national efforts as potentially disruptive to international trade.
Academic text (1997) -
You build up market control, the last thing you want is a disruptive product, right?
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It's so disruptive that it will create a whole new era of technologies and innovations.
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The Chinese government's stomach for additional disruptive change in the near future must therefore be questioned.
Academic text (1998) -
The first depicted foreign investments as creating conflict by bringing disruptive changes to the agricultural sector.
Academic text (1995) -
DNA sequencing might well be the most disruptive technology ever invented.
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Many saw the developments as disruptive, even chaotic, and a threat to traditional notions of Russian unity.
Academic text (1997) -
History teaches that the most revolutionary and disruptive innovation nearly always comes from the fringe, not from corporate cubicles.
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The retirement of baby boomers in key occupations is affecting the job market, resulting in potentially disruptive labor shortages.
Academic text (2012) -
Her disruptive ideas in the classroom encouraged students to think outside the box.
Synonyms
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Causing a big change in how people do things
Antonyms
How Disruptive
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word disruptive comes from the parts dis- ('apart') and rupt ('break'), the same root you see in interrupt and rupture. That's why a disruptive technology 'breaks' old ways and creates big change in a market, often upsetting established companies.