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  • 1break with someone — break with (someone/something) to end a friendly relationship with a person or organization. In Nadia s version of events, she was the one to break with Howard. Barnhart broke with other tobacco companies when he announced that he was settling… …

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  • 2break with something — break with (someone/something) to end a friendly relationship with a person or organization. In Nadia s version of events, she was the one to break with Howard. Barnhart broke with other tobacco companies when he announced that he was settling… …

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  • 3break with — (someone/something) to end a friendly relationship with a person or organization. In Nadia s version of events, she was the one to break with Howard. Barnhart broke with other tobacco companies when he announced that he was settling several major …

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  • 4break with something — ˈbreak with sth derived to end a connection with sth • to break with tradition/old habits/the past • He broke with the party on the issue of Europe. Main entry: ↑breakderived …

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  • 5break with — ► break with 1) quarrel with. 2) go against (a custom or tradition). Main Entry: ↑break …

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  • 6break with precedent — or depart from precedent to change the way in which things have traditionally been done The club has broken with precedent and elected a female president …

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  • 7break with precedent — depart from precedent phrase to change the way in which things have traditionally been done The club has broken with precedent and elected a female president. Thesaurus: to become differentsynonym Main entry: precedent …

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  • 8break with — index defect, disaccord, disagree, estrange, rebel, renounce, split Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …

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  • 9break with — [v] part ways ditch, drop, jilt, reject, renounce, separate; concepts 21,30,180 …

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  • 10break with sb/sth phrasal — verb (T) 1 to leave a group of people or an organization, especially because you have had a disagreement with them: break with sb/sth over sth: Powell broke with the Conservative Party over Europe. 2 break with tradition/the past to stop… …

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