split-up
noun
a splitting or separating into two or more parts.
split-ups
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pluralof split-up.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
“I kinda agree,” he says about the research, although he adds this observation from 27 years of marital split-ups.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2016
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
