disciplinary

comparative more disciplinary · superlative most disciplinary

1. Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.

   Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.

2. For the purpose of imposing punishment.

   The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.

3. Of or relating to an academic field of study.

   We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.

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   Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.

   2012 January 28, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013, page 60

plural disciplinaries

1. A disciplinary action.
2. A disciplinary report.

   During my 3 weeks upstairs they wrote 4 disciplinaries on me: one for yankng my handcuffs away from an officer who was hurting me by twisting them, one for throwing a roll of toilet paper in the hall, and two verbal "assaults".

   1988 February 21, Jery Ragland, “A Hell Of An Appeal”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 31, page 5