serious disruption
collocation in Englishmeaningsofseriousanddisruption
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serious
adjective
uk/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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disruption
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪsˈrʌp.ʃən/us/dɪsˈrʌp.ʃən/
the action of preventing something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or ...
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(Definition ofseriousanddisruptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There will beseriousdisruption.
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The event itself took place withoutseriousdisruption.
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These have not caused anyseriousdisruptionof essential services.
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In some areas, there wasseriousdisruptionof services.
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Only relatively small sectors of those economies were integrated into the national or international economies, and of those only some sufferedseriousdisruption.
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Indeed,seriousdisruptionof the musical texture is unusual: melismas have the power to defer a cadence, sometimes considerably, but they can never prevent one.
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Inevitably, it would lead toseriousdisruptionfor many present ratepayers.
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Apart from that, only two inquiries have been subjected toseriousdisruptionon three separate days.
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At one inquiry there has been frequentseriousdisruptionover a considerable period.
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As he accurately said, the test is one ofseriousdisruption.
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The industrial action of the hospital ancillary workers and ambulance men is causingseriousdisruption.
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This work cannot be carried out without inflictingseriousdisruptionto services.
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We are referring not to the occasional misdemeanour but toseriousdisruption.
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Who is to judge what is aseriousdisruptionof it?
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That might occur if his investigations causedseriousdisruptionto someone's business.
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That combination could lead toseriousdisruptionand damage to individual business enterprises.
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The result is to causeseriousdisruptionof people's legitimate expectations.
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Did it save the community from theseriousdisruptionof last winter?
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What does the phrase, "seriousdisruptionto the life of the community" mean?
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We have not included, "seriousdisruptionto the life of the community".
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The spectre of aseriousdisruptionof the world financial systems and global deflation became manifest.
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But in this instance we have had a veryseriousdisruptionof family life.
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If a ban were widely drawn it would createseriousdisruptionfor local communities, often unnecessarily.
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Seriousdisruptionor coercion of individuals are new provisions and are unnecessary.
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I understand that if the occupations continue much longer, there will beseriousdisruptionto the intake for next autumn.
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