splinter group
noun [C]Definition
› a group of people who have left a political party or other organization and formed a new separate organization: The Socialist Workers' Party seemed to split into several splinter groups.Groups of people
(Definition of splinter group noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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