discipline

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noun

1 training people to behave; behaving well

ADJECTIVE

▪ effective, firm, good, rigorous

▪

We need better discipline in our schools.

▪ harsh, iron, rigid, strict

▪

strict military discipline

▪ lax, poor

▪

Discipline was too lax.

▪ student, team

▪ church, military, party, prison, school, social, work

▪ parental

VERB + DISCIPLINE

▪ enforce, exercise, impose

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the discipline that the party exercises over its members

▪ instil/instill

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We need someone who is good at instilling discipline.

▪ maintain

▪

The teacher was unable to maintain discipline.

▪ submit to

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They submitted to the discipline imposed by their leaders.

▪ learn

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Students have to learn discipline.

▪ have

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The school was criticized for having very poor discipline.

▪ lack

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Modern schools lack discipline.

▪ need

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She believes children need discipline.

▪ restore

DISCIPLINE + NOUN

▪ problem

PHRASES

▪ a breach of discipline (esp. BrE)

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It's unfair to dismiss somebody for a single breach of discipline.

▪ a breakdown in discipline, a breakdown of discipline

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a breakdown of discipline in the classroom

▪ a lack of discipline

▪ order and discipline

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He quickly brought order and discipline to the regiment.

2 controlling yourself

ADJECTIVE

▪ good, great

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It is good discipline to learn to delegate.

▪ strict

▪ personal

▪ mental, spiritual

▪ physical

▪ business, commercial, financial, fiscal, industrial, market, monetary

▪

The government has stabilized the economy through strict fiscal discipline.

▪ message (= the practice of only talking about what is relevant to your aims, by a politician) (AmE)

VERB + DISCIPLINE

▪ have

▪

He'll never get anywhere working for himself—he has no discipline.

▪ show

▪ lack

▪ apply, bring

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something to help you bring discipline to your decision-making process

▪ demand, require, take

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It takes great discipline to learn a musical instrument.

PHRASES

▪ a lack of discipline

3 subject of study

ADJECTIVE

▪ core, main, major

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Students are to be tested on the three core disciplines: mathematics, English and science.

▪ different, distinct, independent, individual, separate

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When did sociology emerge as a distinct discipline?

▪ established, traditional

▪ emerging, new

▪ related

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social work and its related disciplines

▪ academic, intellectual, scholarly

▪

They established psychology as an academic discipline.

▪ professional (esp. AmE)

▪ humanities, science, scientific, etc.

PREPOSITION

▪ across disciplines

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There is a lack of communication across disciplines (= between teachers and students of different subjects).

▪ within a/the discipline

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Within a discipline there may be more than one school of thought.

PHRASES

▪ different disciplines, diverse disciplines

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academics from diverse academic disciplines

▪ multiple disciplines (esp. AmE)

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experts in multiple disciplines

▪ a range of disciplines

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The university offers a wide range of disciplines.

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verb

Discipline is used with these nouns as the object: ↑child