English-Spanish translations for dislocation

• dislocación
  ¿Qué nos costará en términos de dislocación social, política y económica, que se producirá inevitablemente? What will it cost in terms of the social, political and economic dislocation which will inevitably follow?
  Es casi imposible concebir la enormidad de semejante cifra o imaginar las miserias y la dislocación social que va a causar. It is almost impossible to conceive of such a huge figure or to think about the social dislocation and misery that will cause.
  Ambas afirmaciones carecen totalmente de credibilidad y si uno se fija en las cifras relativas a la pobreza, a las personas sin hogar y a la dislocación social en esta Unión, entenderá por qué. Both of those propositions are utterly discredited and if you look at the figures for poverty, for homelessness and for social dislocation in this Union, you will understand why.
• luxación

Definition of dislocation

• The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced
• The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced
• A sentence structure in which a constituent that could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of a clause occurs outside of and adjacent to the clause boundaries. For example, the sentence, "My father, he is a good man", is a left dislocation because the constituent "My father" has been moved to the left of the clause "he is a good man". See

Related words

• atlanto-occipital dislocation
• left dislocation
• right dislocation
• joint dislocation
• ankle dislocation