(a.) Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
(2) A lost generation of 14 million out-of-work and disengaged young Europeans is costing member states a total of €153bn (£124bn) a year – 1.2% of the EU's gross domestic product – the largest study of the young unemployed has concluded.
(3) Two groups, one institutionalized and the other noninstitutionalized but without formal activities, were described as being disengaged: e.g., withdrawn socially, self-absorbed, as well as powerless, pessimistic, and depressed.
(4) However, an increasing body of experts argues something must be done to arrest disengagement by winning over this so-called Generation Y, born after 1982, who are predicted to be poorer than their parents, and according to Ipsos Mori research, have a record low level of trust in their fellow man.Guy Lodge, of the IPPR thinktank, makes the case for an even more radical solution – compulsory voting for first-timers.
(5) In New York, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), whose mission is to monitor a 1974 disengagement in the Golan Heights between Israel and Syria , reported that shortly after midnight local time, during a ceasefire agreed with the armed elements, all 40 Filipino peacekeepers left their position and "arrived in a safe location one hour later."
(6) With the coming of the meritocracy, the now leaderless masses were partially disfranchised; as time has gone by, more and more of them have been disengaged, and disaffected to the extent of not even bothering to vote.
(7) It is time for the responsible, serious section of the British press to disengage from any coalition with the popular newspapers.
(8) The four stress reaction factors identified were burnout, reduction in work load, tolerance, and disengagement.
(9) He also called for the party to be disengaged from the Tories at least six months before the 2015 election.
(10) But some who have been at lobbying events with Miliband claim he is disengaged, uninterested, and sometimes appears not to have done his homework on the attendant money men.
(11) If we leave,” said George, “the House of Commons will be doing nothing but talking about how to disengage from the EU for the next 10 years.” The committee fell silent as they absorbed the impact of that statement.
(12) These results strongly suggest that the process of enzyme turnover not only regenerates the active conformation of topoisomerase II but also confers upon the enzyme the ability to disengage from its nucleic acid product.
(13) 2) The relation between Awareness of Death and Self-Engagement, as the initial cause and final outcome of disengagement.
(14) The pilot disengaged the autopilot and descended and landed safely back in Perth.
(15) Tony Blair will make an impassioned intervention in the debate over Britain's future in Europe, warning that any disengagement from the European Union's "top table" would be a disaster for the UK's economy and its power on the world stage.
(16) The disengagement takes some time which is or is not included in the saccadic reaction time depending on whether or not visual attention is engaged at the time of the onset of the saccade target.
(17) From a scientific-theoretical point of view activity- and disengagement-theory are adequately examined in this contribution.
(18) The original government proposals suggested no sanction for refusing to register – a shift that led to warnings that millions of mainly poor voters would drop off the register, so increasing disengagement from democratic politics.
(19) It was shown by Ghadiminejad and Saggerson (1991) that the anionic detergent cholate caused disengagement of the malonyl-CoA binding entity from the catalytic entity of outer membrane carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT1).
(20) In contrast to both canonical structures, the beta 97 histidine residue in carbonmonoxy hemoglobin Ypsilanti is disengaged from quaternary packing interactions that are generally believed to enforce two-state behavior in ligand binding.
Latchstring
Definition:
(n.) A string for raising the latch of a door by a person outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it in the door.