Vocabulary
Disruption
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Inflation: Shortage of grains, vegetables, pulses, and disruption of the supply chain would push up the consumer price index causing inflationarypressures.
- In fact, the uncertainty induced by technological advanceswill cause massive disruption, fast rendering irrelevant and outmoded even the best-crafted interventions.
- The destruction of crops and disruption of food supply chains have set the stage for spiralling food inflation.
- Deforestation is not only about environmental degradation, it is about loss of human life, disruption of livelihoods, displacement of vulnerable communities and destruction of costly infrastructure.
- This is an encouraging figure and represents a rebound from the disruption caused by Covid-19.
Curator example
“the scheme was planned to minimize disruption”
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