dispositif

• (sociology): dispositive

Borrowed from French dispositif

dispositif (plural dispositifs)

1. (international law) A document that communicates the general stance 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. (sociology) 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.

From the root of Latin dispositum.

• IPA^(key): /dis.po.zi.tif/

dispositif m (plural dispositifs)

1. arrangement, lay-out
2. measures, expedient, means to an end
3. device, machine, system
4. operation, plan
5. (law) dispositif

• “dispositif” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).