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• split-up
  split-up

  noun

  a splitting or separating into two or more parts.
• split up
  split up

  verb

  (tr) to separate out into parts; divide

split-up

American  

[split-uhp] / ˈsplɪtˌʌp /

noun

split-ups plural

1. a splitting or separating into two or more parts.

2. a separation or dissociation of two groups or people.

3. Commerce. a process of reorganizing a corporate structure whereby all the capital stock and assets are exchanged for those of two or more newly established companies, resulting in the liquidation of the parent corporation.

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split up British  

verb

1. (tr) to separate out into parts; divide

2. (intr) to become separated or parted through disagreement

   they split up after years of marriage

3. to break down or be capable of being broken down into constituent parts

   I have split up the question into three parts

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noun

1. the act or an instance of separating

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• split-ups
  plural

Etymology

Origin of split-up

First recorded in 1830–40; noun use of verb phrase split up

Example Sentences

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He said he came home from school one day to find that most of the family’s household belongings were gone, divided between his split-up parents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

If Kellogg’s split-up taught us anything, it’s that value can often come from making a stand-alone business attractive to an acquirer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025

An MP has criticised the "appalling" treatment of a family split-up by UK authorities as they tried to flee Sudan.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2023

Weeks after the outage, Alibaba group Chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang took over as head of the cloud unit, a role he will continue to hold concurrently even after the split-up.

From Reuters ● Mar. 31, 2023

He cried a little but he knew he would be all right because, ever since the split-up of his parents when he was five, he had pretty much raised himself.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

IBM and its advisers are aware that the disappointing results could make the company vulnerable to an activist investor or pressure to split up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

She and her friends split up across Jakarta, and "each of us tried to buy tickets from different locations, using different internet connections and accounts".

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

While impressive, the underwriter fees get split up across the banks and aren’t the real money-maker.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

Other families split up by deportations to Somalia were also fearful of going on the record - often too traumatised.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

And then, what if they didn’t split up?

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

We will see more financial engineering, spinoffs, split-ups, and other deals.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

I’ve got no way of knowing how the three pending split-ups will do, if only because parts of them won’t be completed until 2023.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2021

The move comes in the wake of some major U.S. corporate split-ups in the past, as listed below.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2021

But in this country's sometimes wacky betting industry, bookies accept wagers and set odds on whatever fanciful idea crops up in a gambler's head - from predicting showbiz split-ups to the discovery of extraterrestrial life.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2011

Through his parents’ various marital split-ups, he’d moved repeatedly from one remote and inhospitable town to another, learning to negotiate a series of stepparents along the way.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz