BREAKAWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breakaway mean? 

• BREAKAWAY (noun)
  The noun BREAKAWAY has 1 sense:

1. the act of breaking away or withdrawing from

  Familiarity information: BREAKAWAY used as a noun is very rare.

• BREAKAWAY (adjective)
  The adjective BREAKAWAY has 1 sense:

1. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude

  Familiarity information: BREAKAWAY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREAKAWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of breaking away or withdrawing from

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

breakaway; breaking away

Context example:

a breaking away from family and neighborhood

Hypernyms ("breakaway" is a kind of...):

secession; withdrawal (formal separation from an alliance or federation)

Derivation:

break away (withdraw from an organization or communion)

• BREAKAWAY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude

Synonyms:

breakaway; fissiparous; separatist

Context example:

a breakaway faction

Similar:

independent (free from external control and constraint)

 Context examples 

Their approach detects micrometastases, breakaway tumor cells with the potential to develop into dangerous secondary breast cancer tumors elsewhere in the body.

(Tell-tale biomarker detects early breast cancer, NIH)