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单词 splinter group
释义
splinter groupˈsplinter group noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • They are a hard-line conservative splinter group of the Republican Party.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A week before the election a splinter group of the Moro National Liberation Front had taken several nuns captive.
  • According to evidence given in the trial, the Commandos of Sacrifice were a Nahda splinter group.
  • Every splinter group of liberalism was to centre round a café table.
  • He'd quarrelled with them, and formed a splinter group of one.
  • He was a leader of the 1892 splinter group in the Berlin Society.
  • In Berlin a splinter group formed within the Society, but it did not secede until 1898.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatora small group within a larger political or religious organization
a group of people within a larger political or religious organization who have different aims from many of the other people within it: · The pro-war faction within the party condemned any attempt at negotiation.· The whole of the country has been taken over and destroyed by warring factions.
a group of people in a political or religious organization who have ideas that most people in the organization do not agree with or think are extreme: · The terrorist fringe condemned the decision and threatened to use force.· Crusading journalist William Lloyd Garrison represented the radical fringe.lunatic fringe (=people with very extreme, stupid ideas): · a lunatic fringe of cranks and reactionaries, who probably still believe that the earth is flat
a small group of people who leave a larger political or religious group to form their own smaller group, because they do not agree with the larger group's beliefs, aims, methods etc: · They broke away and formed a splinter group that believed in revolution, not gradual change.· The splinter group rapidly gained support from discontented members.
WORD SETS
agitate, verbagitation, nounagitator, nounbipartisan, adjectivebipartite, adjectivebloc, nounBolshevik, nouncapitalism, nouncentrist, adjectivecoalition, nouncommie, nouncommunism, nouncommunist, nouncommunist, adjectiveCon, confederacy, nounconfederate, nounconfederation, nouncongress, nounconservatism, nounDem., disloyal, adjectivedissident, noundivide, verbdivisive, adjectivefascism, nounfascist, nounfederal, adjectivefederate, verbfederation, nounfront, nounginger group, nounhegemony, nounheterodox, adjectiveIndependent, nouninfighting, nouninterest group, nounIRA, nounIron Curtain, the, Lab, Labour, nounleftie, nounleftist, adjectiveleft-of-centre, adjectiveleft-wing, adjectivelefty, nounLib Dem, nounLiberal, nounLiberal Democrats, nounLiberal Party, loyalist, nounLuddite, nounmachine, nounmajority leader, nounminority leader, nounmoderate, adjectivemoderate, nounmonarchist, nounmovement, nounnationalism, nounnationalist, adjectivenationalist, nounNazi, nounneutral, adjectivenon-partisan, adjectivepalace revolution, nounparamilitary, adjectivepartisan, adjectivepartisan, nounparty, nounparty political, adjectiveparty politics, nounpinko, nounpro-, prefixpro-choice, adjectiveR, rabble-rousing, nounradical, nounrally, nounreactionary, adjectiverealign, verbrebel, nounrebellion, nounrebellious, adjectivered, adjectivered, nounrepublican, nounrevolt, nounrevolt, verbrevolutionary, adjectiverevolutionary, nounrightist, adjectiveright-of-centre, adjectiveright-wing, adjectiveroyalist, nounseparatist, nounspecial interest group, nounsplinter group, nounsplit, verbsubcommittee, nounsubversion, nounsuffragette, nounsympathizer, nounsympathy, nountendency, nounTory, nounTrotskyite, nountrue-blue, adjectiveUnionist, nounuprising, nounWhig, nounwing, noun
a group of people that have separated from a political or religious organization because they have different ideas
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