breakawaynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbreɪ.kə.weɪ/us/ˈbreɪ.kə.weɪ/an act of separating from a group, especially because of disagreement:
The sports association accepted the inevitability of a breakaway by the elite clubs.
The breakaway group formed a new political party.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Separating and dividing
- atomize
- bifurcate
- bifurcation
- bisect
- borderline
- branch
- dismember
- dissociate
- dissociate yourself from sth
- disunite
- divide
- divide/split (sth) down the middle idiom
- drift
- quarter
- ravel
- resolve
- resolve sth into sth
- rive
- riven
- tear 1
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