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 [dɪ'zɑ:stə] n

environ.

rampen f

English thesaurus

disaster [dɪ'zɑ:stə] n

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 [dɪ'zɑ:stə] n

comp., abbr.

Disaster

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Agriculture	1
Communications	2
Construction	1
Economics	5
Environment	49
Finances	3
General	58
Health care	1
Human rights activism	6
Hydraulics	4
Information technology	3
Insurance	1
Law	13
Medical	1
Natural sciences	1
Social science	5
Transport	1
United Nations	5


disaster
gen.	ramp; ramp; ramp
environ.	rampen; rampen
health.	ramp


control
comp., MS	besturingselement
econ.	beheersing
el.	bediening op afstand; centrale bediening; bedieningsinrichting; besturingsinrichting
IT	regelen
law	zeggenschap
life.sc. tech.	meetprofiel