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disengage from (someone or something)

1. To withdraw from someone or something. In this usage, a reflexive pronoun can be used between "disengage" and "from." When she gets that negative, I just have to disengage from her since she's not going to listen to me anyway.

2. To remove or detach something from something else. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "disengage" and "from." We need to disengage these shelves from the wall so that we can paint over here.

disengage (oneself) from someone or something

to detach oneself from someone or something; to untangle oneself from someone or something. I wanted to disengage myself from the person I was talking to and go home. We disengaged from the argument.

disengage something from something

to detach something from something. Sally disengaged the locking mechanism from the cupboard door and peeked in. The coupling was disengaged from the boxcar, and the car separated and rolled away.

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Ehrlichma noted that if the answer to a question is simple people could provide it without having to disengage their visual focus.

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But don't try to disengage the cams with your fingers.

Pay attention!

'The appointment of the new Acting Chief Judge is consequent upon the need to prevent a vacuum in the State Judiciary, given the imminent retirement of the present Chief Judge of Lagos State, Honourable Justice Opeyemi Oke, who is set to disengage statutorily from the State Judiciary from today Monday, 10th June 2019,' the statement said.

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We should disengage from this chaotic situation our Government has helped to create and bring our boys home at the earliest opportunity.

Bring our troops home

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Within the same organizations, some managers engage nearly every worker they manage -- while other managers alienate, or disengage, the employees they manage.

Montana Ranks Highest in Employee Engagement for 2013 and 2014

Gallup uses its employee engagement survey, the Q12, to measure workplace engagement and glean insights about the kinds of manager behaviors that are most likely to cause employees to disengage from their workplaces.

Would You Fire Your Boss? Half of actively disengaged workers -- and one-quarter of all employees -- would, according to a national survey

Make sure you remember to disengage the transfer first!

Don't make transfer trouble

First, disengage the CTIS system by flipping the switch on the driver's panel.

Raise the pressure

'As soon as they arrived in Nigeria on the 23rd April 2018 they drafted a letter to disengage me.

Why FG disengaged me aUwajeh, Special Investigator

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Workplaces that create environments that disengage employees could potentially harm worker wellbeing and reduce productivity.

Where Disengagement at Work Is Worse Than Joblessness; In Germany, people without jobs actually feel better than employees who have bad managers

Workplaces that disengage employees have lower productivity and are less likely hiring and more likely laying off workers.

Engaged Workers Report Twice as Much Job Creation; Actively disengaged workers report more layoffs than hires

Workplaces that create environments that disengage employees create a potential wellbeing risk.

Workers in Bad Jobs Have Worse Wellbeing Than Jobless; Engaged employees are most likely to be thriving