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splinter group
noun
- a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
splinter group
noun
- a number of members of an organization, political party, etc, who split from the main body and form an independent association, usually as the result of dissension
Idioms and Phrases
A part of an organization that breaks away from the main body, usually owing to disagreement. For example, Perot's supporters at first constituted a splinter group but soon formed a third political party . This idiom alludes to the noun splinter , a fragment of wood or some other material that is split or broken off. [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
A splinter group, the Northeast cartel, was among those designated as a terrorist organization last month by the Trump administration.
The latter group was also racked with infighting between established members and splinter groups pushing explicitly white nationalist ideas.
It is designated as one by the UN, US, EU and UK, among many others, as it started as a splinter group of al-Qaeda, which it broke away from in 2016.
One afternoon shortly after the vote, members of the splinter group gathered outside of San Francisco, hiking through the chaparrals of the San Bruno hills, and plotted what to do next.
Yet the next year Russell and Kendall formed a splinter group called Jack Russell’s Great White that began touring clubs around the country.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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