also breakup
( break-ups)
1.
The break-up of a marriage, relationship, or association is the act of it finishing or coming to an end because the people involved decide that it is not working successfully.
...the acrimonious break-up of the meeting’s first session.
...a marital break-up.
= collapse
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2.
The break-up of an organization or a country is the act of it separating or dividing into several parts.
...the break-up of British Rail for privatisation...
At no time did a majority of Czechoslavakia’s citizens support the country’s break-up.
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