disruptions
- 1Plural of disruption.
A series of power disruptions left the factory idle for most of the week.
Frequent disruptions to the supply chain pushed prices higher across the region.
Note
A plural that exists only for the countable uses of disruption. As a mass noun, as in the disruption caused by the strike, the word names a general state and takes no -s. The plural counts separate episodes instead: power disruptions, repeated disruptions to service. The bursting-apart meaning works the same way, where disruptions are individual breaches rather than breakage in general.
disruptions is a form of disruption
disruption, noun: An interruption to the normal flow or sequence of something, so that it stops or proceeds abnormally. Full entry
- Forms
- disruptiondisruptions plural
- Spelling
- disruption → disruptions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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