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Noun

ruction (plural ructions)

  • A noisy quarrel or fight.
    • ✤ Synonyms: brawl, disturbance, fracas, row, uproar; see also Thesaurus: dispute, Thesaurus: fight
    • ✤ “If you do want to go home, here’s your whip. Don’t fall off. Say to her you wanted it, or there might be ructions.”1
    • ✤ She could see there were going to be ructions. Sure enough there’d be a scene between them, when Sebastian found what Tilly had been up to.2
    • ✤ Although she acknowledged that the development of an opera house had caused considerable ructions in Australia, she nevertheless implied that its construction was a sort of coming-of-age for the rough antipodeans3
    • ✤ While the U.S. government had a huge fiscal deficit, similar to Greece’s, the financial ructions emanating from Athens sent nervous money flocking to the United States, not away.4
    • ✤ *Dad drove and Mum commented on Dad’s driving; not too much, but just enough to occasionally lead to ructions. *5
    • ✤ […] the geopolitical ructions caused by Donald Trump’s muscle-flexing in the Middle East, Vladimir Putin’s military aggression and tense economic relations with China.6

Etymology

1825, of unknown origin, possibly from eruption or insurrection.7 Possibly related to the Irish insurrection of 1798.8

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA: /ˈɹʌk.ʃən/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -ʌkʃən

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 1907 April, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter XII, in The Longest Journey, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I (Cambridge), page 144: ↩

  2. 1947, Christopher Sheridan, Bread and circuses, page 52: ↩

  3. 2002, Ruth Bereson, The Operatic State: Cultural Policy and the Opera House, page 148: ↩

  4. 2013, Alan S. Blinder, After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response,…, page 381: ↩

  5. 2014, Murray C. Morison, Time Sphere: ↩

  6. 2026 June 13, Patrick Jenkins, “Lunch with the FT: Thomas Buberl”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3: ↩

  7. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “ruction”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. ↩

  8. Webster’s New International Dictionary. Unabridged. (1954). sub ruction.” ↩

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