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Discipline - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Accord, Adapt, Administer, Administration, Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Area, Arena, Art, Austerity, Authoritarianism

Discipline is any training intended to produce a specific character or pattern of behaviour, especially training that produces moral or mental development in a particular direction.

Forms of discipline:

  • Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order.
  • A systematic method to obtain obedience, e.g. military discipline.

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