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breakaway

1 adjective
     
break‧a‧way1

breakaway group/party/movement

a breakaway group etc is formed by people who have left another group because of a disagreement:
a breakaway group of journalists
Hundreds of miners joined the breakaway union.

➔ break away

at break1
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