Split Party Splɪt Years Damaging Leadership Bitter Wife

• a damaging split within the party leadership
• the years following his bitter split with his wife
• there have been reports of a split between the prime minister and the cabinet.
• he demanded a 50–50 split in the profits.

split

1. a disagreement that divides a group of people or makes somebody separate from somebody else
• a damaging split within the party leadership
• the years following his bitter split with his wife
• There have been reports of a split between the Prime Minister and the Cabinet.
2. a division between two or more things; one of the parts that something is divided into
• He demanded a 50–50 split in the profits.
3. a long crack or hole made when something tears
• There's a big split in the tent.
4. a sweet dish made from fruit, especially a banana cut in two along its length, with cream, ice cream, etc. on top
• See related entries: Sweets and desserts
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/sweets_and_desserts/split_2
• a banana split
5. a position in which you stretch your legs flat across the floor in opposite directions with the rest of your body vertical
• a gymnast doing the splits

Extra Examples

• It’s an even split; some love it, some hate it.
• Mike’s split with his wife
• Ten years after their acrimonious split, the band has reformed.
• a growing split in the Church over the issue of gay priests
• a split between the right and left wings of the party
• an ideological split within the party
• A damaging split within the party leadership has occurred.
• He found it difficult to cope in the years following his bitter split with his wife.

Word Origin

• late 16th cent. (originally in the sense ‘break up a ship’, describing the force of a storm or rock): from Middle Dutch splitten, of unknown ultimate origin.