"breaker-up" meaning in All languages combined

See breaker-up on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: breakers-up [plural]
Etymology: From break up + -er. Etymology templates: {{af|en|break up|-er|id2=agent noun}} break up + -er Head templates: {{en-noun|breakers-up}} breaker-up (plural breakers-up)
  1. Someone who breaks something up (in various senses).

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1991, Bob Franklin, Nigel Parton, editors, Social Work, the Media, and Public Relations, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 77",
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