dislocation

noun

  1. 1

    the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue

    the social dislocations resulting from government policies

    his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London

  2. 2

    an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity

  3. 3

    a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

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