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breaker-up en · NOUN

Etymology

From break up + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who breaks something up (in various senses).
   • Clearly, it cannot be consistently maintained that social workers are in all cases both insensitive breakers-up of families and ineffectual bystanders. 1991, Bob Franklin, Nigel Parton, editors, Social Work, the Media, and Public Relations, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 77:

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