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.
   • 1987 February 1, Jennie McKnight, quoting Dorothy Green or her legal representative, “Black Lesbian Settles w/ABC”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 3:

     Green, who served as a technical manager in the network's Washington bureau, charged in her suit that she was subject to "repeated acts of insubordination by white male engineers and technicians, with the effect of the erosion and undermining of [her] ability to carry out her duties as 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.