disbandments
Organizations officially ending
Disbandments are acts of breaking up organized groups.
When a military unit, committee, band, or organization is formally dissolved, that dissolution is a disbandment.
The word appears most often in institutional contexts: The disbandments of several army regiments followed budget cuts.
Each disbandment ends a group's official existence.
Acts of formally ending
- breakupsEndings of romantic relationships
- terminationsActs of bringing closure
- closuresActs of sealing shut
- shutdownsCessation of operations
dispersals · abolitions · discontinuations · wind-ups · liquidations · decommissionings · dismantlings · foldings
Releasing troops from service
- decommissioningsFormal withdrawals from service
- stand-downsOrders ending alert status
- drawdownsGradual reductions from reserves
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
demilitarization · discharge · cashiering · post-war · reconversion
Formal orders against something
- suppressionsActs of forcibly subduing
- crackdownsSevere enforcement measures
- proscriptionsFormal bans or condemnations
- schismsFormal organizational splits
dissolutions
Acts of formally ending
- breakupsEndings of romantic relationships
- terminationsActs of bringing closure
- closuresActs of sealing shut
shutdowns · dispersals · abolitions · discontinuations · wind-ups · liquidations · decommissionings · dismantlings · foldings · endings
demobilizations
Releasing troops from service
- decommissioningsFormal withdrawals from service
- stand-downsOrders ending alert status
- drawdownsGradual reductions from reserves
armistice · demilitarization · discharge · cashiering · post-war · reconversion
prohibitions
Formal orders against something
- suppressionsActs of forcibly subduing
- crackdownsSevere enforcement measures
- proscriptionsFormal bans or condemnations
disbandmentsformations
Arranged structures or patterns
establishments · foundings · creations · assemblies · mergers
disbandmentsmergers
Corporate consolidations
unifications · consolidations · amalgamations · unions · fusions