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disaster [dɪ'zɑ:stə] n
gen.	calamidad f; desastre Francia
environ.	desastres m
fin.	desastre natural; catástrofe natural; dependiendo del contexto
health.	catástrofe m; desastre m; siniestro n
disaster Belgium n
gen.	desastre Bélgica
Disasters n
polit.	Catástrofes m
disaster The result of a vast ecological breakdown in the relations between man and his environment, a serious and sudden event (or slow, as in drought) on such a scale that the stricken community needs extraordinary efforts to cope with it, often with outside help or international aid n
environ.	desastres m
disasters n
environ.	desastre m
English thesaurus
Disaster [dɪ'zɑ:stə] n
comp., abbr.	D
disaster [dɪ'zɑ:stə] n
IT	A sudden, unplanned calamitous event causing great damage or loss. Any event that creates an inability on an enterprise's part to provide critical business functions for some predetermined period of time. Similar terms are business interruption, outage and catastrophe. 2. The period when enterprise management decides to divert from normal production responses and exercises its disaster recovery plan DRP. It typically signifies the beginning of a move from a primary location to an alternate location.

Disaster: 295 phrases in 25 subjects

Agriculture	1
Cinematography	1
Communications	2
Construction	3
Data processing	1
Economy	7
Environment	62
Finances	8
General	56
Health care	4
Human rights activism	4
Information technology	1
Insurance	3
International Monetary Fund	8
Meteorology	14
Microsoft	1
Name of organization	15
Natural sciences	2
Oceanography & oceanology	1
Politics	5
Security systems	19
Social science	10
Technology	4
United Nations	62
Water resources	1