"disruptive" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/ [UK], /dɪzˈɹʌptɪv/ [UK], /dɪzˈɹʊptɪv/ [UK], /dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-disruptive.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more disruptive [comparative], most disruptive [superlative]
Etymology: disrupt + -ive. In the business sense popularized by Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower, see 1995 citation. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|disrupt|-ive}} disrupt + -ive Head templates: {{en-adj}} disruptive (comparative more disruptive, superlative most disruptive)
  1. Causing disruption or unrest. Translations (causing disrupt or unrest): 分裂性的 (Chinese Mandarin), 扰动的 (Chinese Mandarin), storend (Dutch), onrustwekkend (Dutch), häiritsevä (Finnish), perturbant (French), dérangeant (French), störend (German), bomlasztó (Hungarian), züllesztő (Hungarian), zavart keltő (Hungarian), frantumante (Italian), disgregante (Italian), 산만한 (sanmanhan) (Korean), splittende (Norwegian), nedbrytende (Norwegian), rozpraszający (Polish), zakłócający spokój [masculine] (Polish), diruptivo (Portuguese), disruptivo (Portuguese), разруши́тельный (razrušítelʹnyj) (Russian), опустоши́тельный (opustošítelʹnyj) (Russian), подрывно́й (podryvnój) (english: subversive) (Russian), disruptivan (Serbo-Croatian), razoran (Serbo-Croatian), uznemirujući (Serbo-Croatian), remetilački (Serbo-Croatian), perturbante (Spanish), disruptivo (note: used in science) (Spanish), rahatsız edici (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-disruptive-en-adj-a7wjrwkj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ive Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ive: 57 43 Disambiguation of 'causing disrupt or unrest': 79 21
  2. (business) Causing major change, as in a market. Categories (topical): Business
    Sense id: en-disruptive-en-adj-c9-jSmFM Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Topics: business
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: disruptively, disruptiveness, disruptive selection, disruptivity

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.