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/dɪsˌɔrgənəzˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Disorganization n.

The act of disorganizing; destruction of system.

The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government. "The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total disorganization, that the owner can never lay his hands upon any one article at the moment he has occasion for it."

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Etymology of 'Disorganization'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disorganization" Quotes from Famous Books

... indications of disorganization (political) in North Carolina—but it is too late. The Confederate States Executive is too strong, so long as Congress remains obedient, for any formidable demonstration of that character to occur in any of the States. We shall probably have martial ...

— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones

... did not affect any belief that the Brook Farmers had in social science, and it did not break up the Association. Certainly no one departed from the place at once in fear of disorganization. It called forth kindly letters from all parts of the country, and our immediate friends gathered around us as if to shield us from further harm. The sweet singer returned to pass a few days with us, and our noble friend Channing spoke earnest ...

— Brook Farm • John Thomas Codman

... proved critical. Its midsummer season saw the turning-point in the respective fortunes of the North and the South, both in the east and in the west. The beginning of 1863 was a time for recording great depletion of resources in Indian Territory, as elsewhere, great disorganization within Southern Indian ranks, and much privation, suffering, and resultant dissatisfaction among the tribes generally. The moment called for more or less sweeping changes in western commands. Those most nearly affecting the Arkansas ...

— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel

... North, mark well my words: You must lend your aid to an adjustment of relations in the South upon an equitable basis or be confronted with the question of the disorganization and readjustment of your own affairs. Stand out against the repressionists of the South, make the whole nation a field of fair play and then we will not have this one disturbing center distributing trouble to all ...

— The Hindered Hand - or, The Reign of the Repressionist • Sutton E. Griggs

... a directorship in a Popish institution. This is surely a sad state of things,—a state grown very general, and which threatens to become more so; and in a due sense of the weakness for all good which it creates, and of the palpable state of disorganization and decomposition favourable to the growth of every species of evil, physical and moral, which it induces, we recognise at least one of the causes of the general desire for union. To no one circumstance has Rome owed more of its success than to the divisions of the Protestant ...

— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller

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