Dispositif

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A part of a document that communicates the decisions taken by some organization or nation on a particular issue.

    "Thereafter the court ruled unanimously in paragraph 2c of its dispositif that threat or use of force by means of nuclear weapons is contrary to the UN charter and is unlawful."

  2. 2
    According to Michel Foucault, the aggregate of institutional, physical and administrative mechanisms and knowledge structures that enhance and maintain the exercise of power within society (see dispositif).

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"Thereafter the court ruled unanimously in paragraph 2c of its dispositif that threat or use of force by means of nuclear weapons is contrary to the UN charter and is unlawful."

Etymology

Borrowed from French dispositif.

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