单词 | splinter group |
释义 | splinter group From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Groupingssplinter groupˈsplinter group noun [countable]PPGGROUP OF PEOPLEa group of people that have separated from a political or religious organization because they have different ideasExamples from the Corpussplinter group• 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.• A week before the election a splinter group of the Moro National Liberation Front had taken several nuns captive.• He'd quarrelled with them, and formed a splinter group of one.• They are a hard-line conservative splinter group of the Republican Party.• Every splinter group of liberalism was to centre round a café table.• According to evidence given in the trial, the Commandos of Sacrifice were a Nahda splinter group. |
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