splinter group
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈsplinter group noun [countable] PPGGROUP OF PEOPLEa group of people that have separated from a political or religious organization because they have different ideas 〔因意见分歧而从政治或宗教团体中分裂出来的〕小团体，小派别
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splinter 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.ˈsplinter group nounChineseSyllable
a that separated from Corpus of people a group political have or
splinter group
ˈsplinter group
noun [countable]
a group of people that have separated from a political or religious organization because they have different ideas
ˈsplinter group
noun [countable]a group of people that have separated from a political or religious organization because they have different ideas