disciplinary

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
23
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/dɪsɪˈplɪnəɹi/(UK)
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/dɪsɪˈplɪnəɹi/(UK) · /ˈdɪs.ə.pləˌnɛɹi/(US)

Definition of disciplinary

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
    “Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.”
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adj

  1. Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
    “Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.”
  2. For the purpose of imposing punishment.
    “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.
    “We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.”
    “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.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Medieval Latin disciplinarius, from Latin disciplina (“instruction, teaching, field of study, habit”).

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