Some temporary dislocations occurred when employment at Aerojet dropped over 90% in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
For example labour inputs for erosion works and temporary dislocation of food production, fuel supplies and fodder for livestock may be borne by one group more than another.
Other industries can go on strike, and only create temporary and partial dislocations.
In urban areas, freer trade and investment will cause temporary dislocations as leaner, technologically advanced foreign companies wipe out bloated domestic ones.
The landholding of few of the great monasteries of northern Francia shows anything more than temporary dislocation.
And any temporary dislocation, like the new Federal inspection of the planes of Eastern and Continental Air Lines, planes, can tip elaborate booking formulas off balance.
"If there is a tightening of monetary policy in the G-7 countries, there could be temporary dislocations that either reduce, increase the price, or outright interrupt the capital flows to some of these countries."
Muscle strains and Sprains, a temporary dislocation of a joint that immediately reduces automatically but may result in ligament damage.
But today it would lead to wrenching, if temporary, economic dislocations as banks dropped their conventional loan businesses.
As the war has dragged on, temporary dislocations seem to have become semipermanent.