English ⇄ Arabic Basque Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Irish Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Norwegian Bokmål Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Scottish Gaelic Serbian Latin Slovak Slovene Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Uzbek

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 n
environ.	afet
English thesaurus
disaster [dɪ'zɑ:stə] n
IT	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.	D

disaster: 19 phrases in 6 subjects

Austrian usage	1
Environment	13
Finances	2
Medical	1
Microsoft	1
Non-governmental organizations	1