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Disband vs Disbandment - What's the difference?

disband | disbandment |

As a verb disband

is to break up or cause to cease to exist.

As a noun disbandment is

the act of disbanding.

disband

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To break up or cause to cease to exist.
    • The president wanted to disband the scandal-plagued agency.
  • * Knolles
    • They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling.
  • (obsolete) To loose the bands of; to set free.
  • (obsolete) To divorce.
  • * Milton
    • And therefore she ought to be disbanded .

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    disbandment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of disbanding

    • Synonyms

    *dissolution *dispersal