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Definition of disciplinary adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

disciplinary

adjective
 
/ˌdɪsəˈplɪnəri/,
 
/ˈdɪsəplɪnəri/
 
/ˈdɪsəpləneri/
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  1. connected with the punishment of people who break rules
    • a disciplinary hearing (= to decide if somebody has done something wrong)
    • The company will be taking disciplinary action against him.
    • She will have to explain her actions before the disciplinary committee.
    Topics Crime and punishmentc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryDisciplinary is used with these nouns:
    • action
    • charge
    • code
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  2. (formal) connected with an area of knowledge, especially a subject that people study in a university
    • Students need to broaden and deepen their disciplinary knowledge.
    see also cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinaryTopics Educationc2
  3. Word Originlate 15th cent. (originally with reference to ecclesiastical order): from medieval Latin disciplinarius, from Latin disciplina, from discipulus ‘learner’, from discere ‘learn’.
See disciplinary in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee disciplinary in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English

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