0 an occasion when a group of people, especially soldiers or sailors, refuses to obey orders and/or attempts to take control from people in authority: --
1 to take part in a mutiny: --
2 refusal to obey orders, or a violent attempt to take control from people in authority, esp. in the military or on a ship: --
The delegates on the statutes working group rebelled against those defending ' the president's line ' and mutinied against the president and the secretary of the working group.
In secure accommodation for children, there were no cases of protest movements, mutinies, rebellions or hunger strikes.
There are ten cases of mutiny in the sample, but in this matter as in the others observed so far, it appears that the court gave sailors a fair hearing.
As for common soldiers, expectations were not high, and their habits - on both sides - of flight, desertion, re-enlistment with the enemy, mutiny, and predatory disorder were notorious.
The monks mutiny; they reject the father.
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising to find luckless gendarmes complaining to authorities, abandoning their posts, and even speaking of mutiny.
While the legislation proposed that cowardice be removed from the category of capital offences, desertion was to remain alongside mutiny and treachery.
Then there was a 'mutiny,' as all the carriers wanted to return from whence they had come.
