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:
2 the act of refusing to obey orders from someone in authority:
Investigators charged him with dishonesty and insubordination.
It encourages litigiousness and, in the armed forces, that can easily become insubordination.
Nevertheless, both the use of threatening language and insubordination can be fairly well categorised and defined.
He declined to abide by the decision of the disciplinary authority, and ultimately had to be dismissed for persistent insubordination.
There was general insolence and insubordination and, of course absenteeism and truancy.
To refrain from awarding punishment where such is due would put a premium on insubordination.
For this reason, the people must go down the path of resistance, disobedience and insubordination.
It may also be awarded under the prison rules for certain serious prison offences, such as mutiny, violence and gross insubordination.
They might have called it a strike; they might have called it a mutiny; they might have called it insubordination.
