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breakers-up

breakers-up is the plural of breaker-up.

Meaning of breaker-up

Noun

breaker-up (plural breakers-up)

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

Questions about breakers-up

What is breakers-up the plural of?
Breakers-up is the plural of breaker-up.

Words near breakers-up in the dictionary

  1. breakerless
  2. breakerman
  3. breakermen
  4. breakers
  5. breakers' yards
  6. breakers-up
  7. breakes
  8. breakest
  9. breaketh
  10. breakeven
  11. breakeven load factor

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