Definition of disband
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Examples of disband in a Sentence
They've decided to disband the club.
The members of the organization have decided to disband.
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Although it had been disbanded, the network the group had established survived.
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According to the dissolution document, Hupp and the nonprofit’s other two directors — Bill Connors, president and CEO of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce, and Bill Shawver of Idaho Power — voted Feb. 10 to disband the fledgling corporation.
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The organizing committee will eventually disband, and under the terms of the host city agreement, Tokyo taxpayers will be on the hook for any shortfall left behind.
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The final track was announced last month after their label Starship Entertainment revealed that the group was planning on disbanding once the members' seven-year-long contracts with the agency expired in June.
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SMU in 1987 is the only NCAA football Division I program to receive the death penalty, having its program shut down and disbanded for two years.
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The militia disbanded with little fanfare in 1947, almost two years after the war ended.
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The unit disbanded in 1947, but its members weren’t recognized by the Army until 2004.
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Not that Brylawski, whose brainy band vaporized conventional musical structure with hypnotic results on efforts like its 1992 debut Cor-Crane Secret and 1996’s Exploded Drawing before disbanding, rejects critical or commercial vernacular.
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Origin and Etymology of disband
Middle French desbander, from des- dis- + bande band
DISBAND Defined for English Language Learners
disband
playDefinition of disband for English Language Learners
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: to end an organization or group (such as a club)
DISBAND Defined for Kids
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disbanded
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: to break up and stop being a group
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