disciplinary — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.

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   Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.

2. For the purpose of imposing punishment.

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   The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.

3. Of or relating to an academic field of study.

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   We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.

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   Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.

Noun

1. A disciplinary action.

2. A disciplinary report.

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   During my 3 weeks upstairs they wrote 4 disciplinaries on me: one for yankng my handcuffs away from an officer who was hurting me by twisting them, one for throwing a roll of toilet paper in the hall, and two verbal "assaults".

Adjective

1. relating to discipline in behavior

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   disciplinary problems in the classroom

2. relating to a specific field of academic study

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   economics in its modern disciplinary sense

3. designed to promote discipline

   Synonyms

   correctivedisciplinal

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   the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional

   disciplinal measures

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   the mother was stern and disciplinary