Meanings
noundisrupter (plural disrupters)
plural disrupters · alternative disruptor
- Someone or something that disrupts.
[Kazuma] Sekiya comes from a bloodline of disrupters.
2025 May 3, Harry Dempsey, David Keohane, “Can you run a company as a perfect free market?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 191 more example
This is [Jean-Luc] Godard the disrupter (played by Guillaume Marbeck), shooting guerilla-style in Paris without lights, permits and often without a script.
2025 May 24, Raphael Abraham, “In Godard we trust”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16 - literatureAn energy weapon in the form of a pistol.
Origin
Translations
Catalan disruptiu
- disruptiusomeone or something that disrupts
French perturbateur
- perturbateursomeone or something that disrupts
Spanish disruptor
- disruptorsomeone or something that disrupts
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APA
disrupter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disrupter
MLA
“disrupter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disrupter. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disrupter,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disrupter.
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