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insubordinations

insubordinations is the plural of insubordination.

Meaning of insubordination

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.
    • 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."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

Questions about insubordinations

What is insubordinations the plural of?
Insubordinations is the plural of insubordination.

Words near insubordinations in the dictionary

  1. insubordinated
  2. insubordinately
  3. insubordinateness
  4. insubordinates
  5. insubordination
  6. insubordinations
  7. Insubres
  8. Insubria
  9. Insubrian
  10. insubstantiable
  11. insubstantial

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