Breaker-up

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"Clearly, it cannot be consistently maintained that social workers are in all cases both insensitive breakers-up of families and ineffectual bystanders."

Etymology

From break up + -er.

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