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dis·en·gage

(dĭs′ĕn-gāj′)

v. dis·en·gaged, dis·en·gag·ing, dis·en·gag·es

v.tr.

1. To release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles. See Synonyms at extricate.

2. To release (oneself) from an engagement, pledge, or obligation.

v.intr.

To free or detach oneself; withdraw.

dis′en·gage′ment n.

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disengagement

(ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt)

1. the act or process of disengaging or the state of being disengaged

2. leisure; ease

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disengagement

In arms control, a general term for proposals that would result in the geographic separation of opposing nonindigenous forces without directly affecting indigenous military forces.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Noun	1.	disengagement - the act of releasing from an attachment or connection detachment separation - the act of dividing or disconnecting
	2.	disengagement - to break off a military action with an enemy fallback, pullout retreat - (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat; "the disorderly retreat of French troops" armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"

disengagement

noun disconnection, withdrawal, separation, detachment, disentanglement This policy of disengagement from the war had its critics.

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disengagement

noun

The act or process of detaching:

detachment, disconnection, separation, uncoupling.

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disimpegno

disengagement

[ˌdɪsɪnˈgeɪdʒmənt] N

1. (Mil) → retirada f

2. (Mech) → desacoplamiento m, desconexión f

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disengagement

[ˌdɪsɪnˈgeɪdʒmənt] n

(= withdrawal) (gen) → désengagement m; (military) → désengagement m

(= detachment) → indifférence f

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disengagement

(= extrication) → Lösung f

(Tech) → Ausrücken nt (form); disengagement of the clutch → das Auskuppeln

(Mil) → Abzug m

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disengagement

[ˌdɪsɪnˈgeɪdʒmənt] n (of clutch) → disinnesto (Pol) → disimpegno

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dis·en·gage·ment

n. desencajamiento, separación, desunión; [in obstetrics] desplazamiento de la cabeza del feto de la vulva.

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Others have endeavored to account for these discharges of "mountain artillery" on humbler principles; attributing them to the loud reports made by the disruption and fall of great masses of rock, reverberated and prolonged by the echoes; others, to the disengagement of hydrogen, produced by subterraneous beds of coal in a state of ignition.

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She paused over it for some time with indignant astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a deliverance the most real, a blessing the most important.

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If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make her house beautiful, she sets a standard for him against which very few women can struggle, besides effecting for him a disengagement of his affections, his sense of beauty, and his idealism from his specifically sexual impulses.

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Bauchi State Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has approved the immediate disengagement of all political office holders including the dissolution of all Local Government Councils Management Committee members in the State.

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Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- The Israeli-Syrian agreement on the disengagement of Syrian and Israeli forces in the Golan Heights is under threat due to the US decision to recognize the region's annexation by Israel, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated.

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Moral disengagement encompasses social cognitive mechanisms that enable individuals to behave immorally for the sake of self-interest (Bandura, 1991).

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During the meeting, Major general Montaner talked about preparations held by government of Uruguay to dispatch a military unit to work within the frame of the UN Disengagement Force in Golan, hailing the great support offered by the Syrian government in this regard.

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CEO Tim Cook had (https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/06/13/apple-ceo-tim-cook-finally-publicly-acknowledges-a.aspx) confirmed in 2017  that the company was "focusing on autonomous systems" and believes self-driving software will end up being "a core technology." Companies that test autonomous vehicles on public roads in California are required to file disengagement reports with the state's Department of Motor Vehicles.

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Further time-saving has been achieved by the introduction of a unique dismounting system that safely controls the disengagement of each participant at the end of the ride.

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RAMALLAH, October 8, 2018 (WAFA) -- Disengagement from Israel will come in strides until there is a total separation in the relationship with the Occupying Power, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Ahmad Majdalani said on Monday.

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One approach to guide this investigation is the mechanism of moral disengagement proposed by Bandura (1991).