disruptive

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/ (UK)
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/dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/ (UK) · /dɪzˈɹʌptɪv/ (UK) · /dɪzˈɹʊptɪv/ (UK) · /dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/ (US)

Definition of disruptive

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Causing disruption or unrest.
    “Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.”
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adj

  1. Causing disruption or unrest.
    “Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.”
  2. Causing major change, as in a market.
    “disruptive technologies”
    “Each time a disruptive technology emerged, between one-half and two-thirds of the established manufacturers failed to introduce models employing the new architecture—in stark contrast to their timely launches of critical sustaining technologies.”
    “[…] companies tend to lose their leadership positions to companies that enter the market with a disruptive technology or market change.”

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Etymology

From disrupt + -ive. In the business sense popularized by Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower, see 1995 citation.

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