insubordinate person
a person not willing to obey orders from authority
TRANSLATION
insubordinate = ungehorsam, aufsässig --- GOOGLE INDEX insubordinate: approximately 500,000 Google hits
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China's elderly patriarchs see censorship as justified by the need for social stability to grow the economy and meet the needs of their huge population. But many of today's internet billionaires started out as INSUBORDINATE slackers, similar to the high school students who crowded Beijing's Internet bars and - allegedly - neglected their schoolwork.
(BBC News)
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The changes to America’s national-security team that are expected to be announced appear to have been designed with one aim in mind: to give Barack Obama greater control over a military machine that he regards as wasteful, arrogant and at times close to INSUBORDINATE.
(The Economist)
(BBC News)
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The changes to America’s national-security team that are expected to be announced appear to have been designed with one aim in mind: to give Barack Obama greater control over a military machine that he regards as wasteful, arrogant and at times close to INSUBORDINATE.
(The Economist)
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insubordinate
adjective
- (of a person) not willing to obey orders from people in authority, or (of actions and speech, etc.) showing that you are not willing to obey orders
noun
- insubordination
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Insubordinate in outer space
After returning from the first-ever multi-manned space flight (with fellow astronaut Gus Grissom) in March, 1965, John Young was reprimanded by NASA for breach of conduct. Shortly thereafter a Congressional investigation was launched to determine if Young had truly been insubordinate.
The issue was that against NASA's strict orders, Young had smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the spacecraft. Crumbs from the sandwich floating around in the zero-G environment posed a risk to the sensitive machinery and of course the lives of the pilots.
It would not have been so bad, had Young at least enjoyed the fruits of his insubordination. But the illegal sandwich was eaten by Grissom…
Etymology: Insubordinate is the opposite of subordinate (having a lower or less important position), which stems from the Middle Latin "subordinatus" (placed in a lower order, made subject).
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SYNONYMS
contrary, defiant, disobedient, mutinous, recalcitrant, uncompliant, undisciplined, unruly
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"After repeated warnings, we had to fire him for being insubordinate."
adjective
- (of a person) not willing to obey orders from people in authority, or (of actions and speech, etc.) showing that you are not willing to obey orders
noun
- insubordination
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Insubordinate in outer space
After returning from the first-ever multi-manned space flight (with fellow astronaut Gus Grissom) in March, 1965, John Young was reprimanded by NASA for breach of conduct. Shortly thereafter a Congressional investigation was launched to determine if Young had truly been insubordinate.
The issue was that against NASA's strict orders, Young had smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the spacecraft. Crumbs from the sandwich floating around in the zero-G environment posed a risk to the sensitive machinery and of course the lives of the pilots.
It would not have been so bad, had Young at least enjoyed the fruits of his insubordination. But the illegal sandwich was eaten by Grissom…
Etymology: Insubordinate is the opposite of subordinate (having a lower or less important position), which stems from the Middle Latin "subordinatus" (placed in a lower order, made subject).
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SYNONYMS
contrary, defiant, disobedient, mutinous, recalcitrant, uncompliant, undisciplined, unruly
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"After repeated warnings, we had to fire him for being insubordinate."
