disciplinary

About 4.42 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective 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. adjective 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. adjective 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.

4. noun A disciplinary action.
5. noun A disciplinary report.

Similar words

disciplinal corrective nonindulgent discipline disciplined punishment punitive penal self-discipline correctional

Often followed by

action measures proceedings and actions problems boundaries rules procedures power

Word family

disciplinarily disciplinarities disciplinarity