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Meaning of disciplinary in English

disciplinary
adjective
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/ˌdɪs.əˈplɪn.ər.i/ us
/ˈdɪs.ə.plɪ.ner.i/
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relating to discipline:
disciplinary measures/action If the rules are broken, the employer must take disciplinary measures/action (= give the person a punishment).
disciplinary hearing
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(Definition of disciplinary from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

disciplinary | American Dictionary

disciplinary
adjective [ not gradable ]
us/ˈdɪs·ə·pləˌner·i/
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connected with the punishment of people who break the rules:
Some disciplinary action was obviously called for.
(Definition of disciplinary from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

disciplinary | Business English

disciplinary
adjective
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/ˌdɪsəˈplɪnəri/ us
/ˈdɪsəplɪneri/
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relating to the methods used by companies for dealing with employees who break company rules or do not do their job properly:
Disciplinary measures could damage her career.
the disciplinary board/committee/counsel
disciplinary investigations/meetings
a disciplinary memo/notice/letter
(Definition of disciplinary from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of disciplinary

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Disciplinary measures were used including fines for pupils caught speaking the dialect on school campus.
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The literature reviews give manageable starting places for grounding such research projects in a variety of disciplinary conversations.
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In exchange for this sponsorship, scholars risked compromising their disciplinary integrity.
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A discipline which is fragmented is less likely to act as part of the ' disciplinary ' apparatus.
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The church's disciplinary zeal on the question of material goods also extended to less spiritual and more political aspects of convent life.
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Alongside that extraordinary category of rights, we must work even harder to take academic responsibility and enforce upon ourselves disciplinary rules and community-defined ethics.
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And their disciplinary position has encouraged them to do this in ways unfamiliar to many historians working in more conventional university departments.
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The authors' undertaking has all the merits of initiating a debate about the limits of different disciplinary methodologies.
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We argued that the novelty of self-organization in the natural and psychological sciences and the translation of concepts across disciplinary boundaries were partly to blame.
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This preoccupation with graphics appears to be nothing short of disciplinary idiosyncrasy.
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This last condition is particularly important: to avoid too-easy criticisms of assumptions, those assumptions have to conform to disciplinary standards.
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The real-life disciplinary episode occurred two days before the pretend play episode.
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The distance between the levels of disciplinary communication and of scientific communities increased during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The disciplinary strengths of the authors are evident throughout what is essentially an anthropology of a unique resistance movement crossing lines of ethnicity and religion.
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It also maintains the embedded disciplinary frame through reference to the prior text of a real life disciplinary frame.
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Translations of disciplinary

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紀律的, 懲戒的…
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規律に関する…
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disiplinle ilgili, disipline ait, disiplini sağlayıcı…
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ซึ่งยึดถือระเบียบวินัย, ซึ่งเป็นการลงโทษ…
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thuộc về kỷ luật, đưa vào kỷ luật…
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dyscyplinarny…
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disciplinär…
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peraturan, berkenaan hukuman…
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erzieherisch, Disziplinar-……
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disiplinær, disiplin-, som refs/straff…
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такий, що дисциплінує, виправний…
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disciplinare…
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