disciplinary (adj.)

  1. relating to discipline in behavior; disciplinary problems in the classroom'

  2. relating to a specific field of academic study; economics in its modern disciplinary sense'

  3. designed to promote discipline; the teachers action was corrective rather than instructional; disciplinal measures; the mother was stern and disciplinary

    [ Syn: corrective , disciplinal ]

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