Crossword clues for splinter group
splinter group
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
splinter group
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They are a hard-line conservative splinter group of the Republican Party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A week before the election a splinter group of the Moro National Liberation Front had taken several nuns captive.
▪ According to evidence given in the trial, the Commandos of Sacrifice were a Nahda splinter group.
▪ Every splinter group of liberalism was to centre round a café table.
▪ He'd quarrelled with them, and formed a splinter group of one.
▪ 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.
Wiktionary
splinter group
n. A group of members of a political party or of a similar organisation who have decided to create their own organisation.
WordNet
splinter group
n. a faction or sect that has broken away from its parent organization