1 (of a group) to stop existing, or to cause a group to stop existing: --
2 to stop existing as a group or organization, or to end a group or organization: --
The international department was disbanded due to budget cuts.
Numerous fourth-class postmaster offices had to be disbanded.
Dead : where any funds and assets had been divided between members, and the group had been formally disbanded.
We are the first to admit that our population list and our data on founding and disbanding dates may not be infallible.
Finally, police on foot encircled the maderistas and forced them to disband.
The statements in their books occurred four years after it had met, deliberated, and disbanded.
Additionally, state-owned enterprises were privatised, state-marketing boards disbanded, state subsidies removed and rural finance was restructured.
But it was disbanded after a brief and useless existence.
To reiterate, the theory of density dependence predicts that legitimation suppresses disbanding rates while competition increases disbanding rates.
