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dislocation   (TTS Sound)

The noun dislocation has 3 senses

• dislocation, disruption -- (an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity)


• dislocation, breakdown -- (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")


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