Disciplinary

Quick meaning: Disciplinary is an adjective meaning Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. For the purpose of imposing punishment.
2. Of or relating to an academic field of study.
3. A disciplinary action.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• disciplinaries

Synonyms for disciplinary

Depending on context, synonyms include nonindulgent, corrective, disciplinal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disciplinal, corrective, nonindulgent, discipline, disciplined, punishment.

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