insubordination

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ subordination, on the model of French insubordination.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

insubordination (countable and uncountable, plural insubordinations)

1. The quality or state of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority; specifically, an employee's failure or refusal to comply with a request or an assignment given by his/her supervisor.

Related terms

• ordain
• order
• ordinal
• ordinance, ordnance
• ordinary
• ordinate
• ordination
• ordo

 

With prefixes

• coordinate, coordination
• foreordination
• insubordination
• postordination
• preordination
• reordination
• subordinate, subordination
• subordination
• superordination

 

Translations

quality of being insubordinate

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: անհնազանդություն (hy) (anhnazandutʻyun), չենթարկվելը (čʻentʻarkvelə)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不順從／不顺从 (bú shùncóng), 不服從／不服从 (bú fúcóng)

• Dutch: insubordinatie (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: niskoittelu (fi), niskurointi, tottelemattomuus (fi)
• French: insubordination (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Ungehorsamkeit f, Befehlsverweigerung (de) f, Insubordination (de) f
• Greek: ανυποταξία (el) f (anypotaxía), απειθαρχία (el) f (apeitharchía)
• Hungarian: parancsmegtagadás (hu), fegyelemsértés (hu), függelemsértés (hu), engedetlenség (hu), ellenszegülés (hu)
• Irish: easumhlaíocht f
• Italian: insubordinazione (it) f
• Japanese: 不服従 (ふふくじゅう, fufukujū)
• Macedonian: непослушност f (neposlušnost)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ulydighet (no) m, ordrenekt m

• Persian: نافرمانی (fa) (nâ-farmâni), سرکشی (fa) (sarkeši)
• Portuguese: insubordinação (pt) f
• Russian: неподчине́ние (ru) n (nepodčinénije), неповинове́ние (ru) n (nepovinovénije), ослуша́ние (ru) n (oslušánije), непоко́рность (ru) f (nepokórnostʹ)
• Spanish: insubordinación f
• Swedish: olydnad (sv) c, uppstudsighet (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

French

Etymology

From in- +‎ subordination.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sy.bɔʁ.di.na.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

insubordination f (plural insubordinations)

1. insubordination

Further reading

• “insubordination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.