Usually means: Refusal to obey authority's orders.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. insubordination: Merriam-Webster
  2. insubordination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insubordination: Collins English Dictionary
  4. insubordination: Vocabulary.com
  5. Insubordination, insubordination: Wordnik
  6. insubordination: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. insubordination: Wiktionary
  8. Insubordination, insubordination: Dictionary.com
  9. insubordination: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Insubordination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Insubordination: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. insubordination: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. insubordination: Rhymezone
  14. Insubordination: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. insubordination: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. insubordination: FreeDictionary.org
  17. insubordination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. insubordination: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. insubordination: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. insubordination: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insubordination: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insubordination: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The quality or state of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority; specifically, an employee's failure or refusal to comply with a request or an assignment given by his/her supervisor.

Similar:
rebelliousness, insubordinateness, superobedience, unsubmissiveness, subserviency, incompliance, subservientness, subservience, subversiveness, submissiveness, more...

Opposite:
subordination, obedience

Types:
disrespect, defiance, more...

Adjectives:
such, gross, military, open, general, political, serious, flagrant, outright, female, much



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Similar:
rebelliousness, insubordinateness, superobedience, unsubmissiveness, subserviency, incompliance, subservientness, subservience, subversiveness, submissiveness, more...

Opposite:
subordination, obedience

Types:
disrespect, defiance, more...

Adjectives:
such, gross, military, open, general, political, serious, flagrant, outright, female, much



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