What does insubordination mean in English?

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insubordination Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 refusing to obey orders from people in authority:
- an act of insubordination
- Several officers were arrested for insubordination.
1 the refusal to obey someone who is in a higher position than you and who has the authority to tell you what to do:
- She had recently been fired from her job for insubordination.
2 the act of refusing to obey orders from someone in authority:
- Investigators charged him with dishonesty and insubordination.

Most of the time, men invoke the insubordination of their wife or maintain that she neglected her marital duties.
But this fact might conceal larceny, which was the authorities' nightmare together with the shirking of duty and insubordination.
Even reductions in pay for incompetence usually required additional allegations of dishonesty or insubordination.
His plea for support often fell on deaf ears; his stern warnings against insubordination echoed like a hollow threat.
When one get away with one act of insubordination, that will inspire further acts.
A single act of successful public insubordination, however, pierces the smooth surface of apparent consent, which itself is a visible reminder of underlying power relations.
Dismissals have been rare and there has been only one in recent times, the reason for which was insubordination.
They might have called it a strike; they might have called it a mutiny; they might have called it insubordination.