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Describing To describe  disordered kinetic processes with phenomenological rate laws motivates the definition of it is necessary to introduce  fluctuating rate coefficients. The primary focus using this approach has been on first-order rate laws for irreversible decay, though higher-order kinetics may also be disordered. Here we present theory for disordered irreversible decay that is higher than first order, $A^n\to \textrm{products}$. The central result is an inequality for time-integrated rate coefficient (squared) and the time-integrated rate coefficient squared. Application of this theory to empirical models for disordered kinetics shows this inequality measures the variation in rate coefficients for this class of kinetic processes. Traditional kinetics is valid only when the equality holds.