disbandment
(dɪsˈbændmənt)
[f. prec. + -ment: cf. F. débandement (1701 in Hatz.-Darm.)]
The action or fact of disbanding or dispersing; dismissal from corporate existence.
| 1720 Lond. Gaz. No. 5875/2 Full Pay allowed..for doing Duty after Disbandment. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 182 The very recent disbandment of that body-guard of popery the Jesuits. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. ii. iii. (1848) 97 The august Assembly..dare nowise resolve, with Mirabeau, on an instantaneous disbandment and extinction. 1864 Daily Tel. 3 Sept., The disbandment of the Basingstoke Rifles. |