insubordination

English

Etymology

From French insubordination

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.

Translations

quality of being insubordinate

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: անհնազանդություն (hy) (anhnazandutʿyun), չենթարկվելը (čʿentʿarkvelə)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: insubordinatie (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: niskoittelu (fi), niskurointi, tottelemattomuus (fi)
• French: insubordination (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Ungehorsamkeit f, Befehlsverweigerung (de) f
• Greek: ανυποταξία (el) f (anypotaxía), απειθαρχία (el) f (apeitharchía)
• Hungarian: parancsmegtagadás (hu), fegyelemsértés (hu), függelemsértés, engedetlenség (hu), ellenszegülés (hu)

• Irish: easumhlaíocht f
• Italian: insubordinazione (it) f
• Norwegian: ulydighet (no) m
• Persian: نافرمانی‎ (fa) (nâ-farmâni), سرکشی‎ (fa) (sarkeši)
• Portuguese: insubordinação (pt) f
• Russian: ослушание (ru) n (oslušanije), неповинове́ние (ru) n (nepovinovénije), непокорность (ru) f (nepokornostʹ)
• Spanish: insubordinación f
• Swedish: olydnad (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

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French

Etymology

From in- +‎ subordination.

Pronunciation

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Noun

insubordination f (plural insubordinations)

1. insubordination

Further reading

• “insubordination” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).