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An act or incidence of defecting
The passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence
The act of seceding
An attempt to end the authority of a person or body by rebelling
The state of not being where one is supposed to be, especially frequently or without good reason
A controversial or unorthodox opinion or belief held by a member of a group
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Noun
▲
An act or incidence of defecting
desertion
rebellion
apostasy
revolt
abandonment
absconding
backsliding
betrayal
decamping
dereliction
disloyalty
flight
mutiny
perfidy
recantation
recreancy
secession
tergiversation
treason
alienation
deficiency
disaffection
disownment
divorce
estrangement
failing
failure
faithlessness
forsaking
lack
parting
rejection
repudiation
retreat
separation
severance
sundering
withdrawal
changing allegiances
changing sides
treachery
unfaithfulness
heresy
recreance
dissent
deconversion
conversion
falseness
renunciation of belief
abandonment of belief
defecting
falsity
inconstancy
perfidiousness
infidelity
fickleness
deceitfulness
improbity
bad faith
departure
bolting
fleeing
escape
disappearance
truancy
flying
evasion
departing
marooning
cowardice
retirement
elusion
resignation
running away
turning tail
going absent without leave
falling away
going AWOL
going back on
taking French leave
running out on
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“The company is expected to announce an alliance with that company in an attempt to stem the
defection
of customers to the cable companies.”
Noun
▲
The passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence
immigration
emigration
relocation
migration
departure
movement
journey
expatriation
travel
moving
exodus
wandering
voyage
shift
trek
march
resettlement
settlement
arrival
entry
settling
transplanting
colonisation
UK
colonization
US
crossing
displacement
exile
leaving
peregrination
transmigration
homesteading
reestablishment
uprooting
flight
resettling
passage
diaspora
move
roving
moving abroad
shifting
travelling
UK
traveling
US
drifting
removal
evacuation
withdrawal
transfer
moving overseas
hegira
posting
run
transhumance
Völkerwanderung
transit
progress
journeying
expedition
trip
course
pilgrimage
odyssey
transition
procession
traverse
flow
transference
traversal
transportation
conveyance
transplantation
transferal
sea change
transferral
repositioning
voyaging
passing
advance
motion
going
progression
advancement
headway
onrush
process
change
changeover
substitution
switch
translocation
traversing
furtherance
transmittance
flood
traject
transmittal
transmission
moving on
trajection
flit
flitting
change of job
change of house
adventure
campaign
change of address
venture
quest
scramble
exploration
excursion
jaunt
wayfaring
globetrotting
travels
approach
commutation
route
walkabout
drive
spin
errand
retreat
sortie
commute
outing
slog
ride
visit
walk
hike
lift
constitutional
itinerary
vagabondage
promenade
circuit
roaming
tour
junket
beat
patrol
round
caravan
vagrancy
tramp
safari
range
sally
ramble
stroll
saunter
grand tour
period of travelling
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Noun
▲
The act of seceding
secession
break
disaffiliation
split
withdrawal
apostasy
breakaway
leaving
quitting
resignation
schism
separation
severance
splitting
breakup
departure
desertion
dissension
disunion
division
exiting
parting
retirement
retreat
rift
rupture
seceding
pulling out
dropping out
divorce
betrayal
treason
sundering
estrangement
alienation
changing sides
treachery
defecting
breach
discord
scission
gulf
fractionalization
bifurcation
cleavage
partition
chasm
fractionation
splintering
detachment
dissolution
fracture
great divide
fissure
gap
faction
rebellion
revolt
mutiny
absconding
dereliction
disloyalty
recreancy
perfidy
tergiversation
flight
backsliding
abandonment
decamping
recantation
faithlessness
disaffection
disownment
rejection
lack
failure
failing
repudiation
forsaking
deficiency
changing allegiances
breaking up
difference
divergence
dividing
disconnection
breaking
splitting up
break-up
divide
segregation
disintegration
partitioning
polarity
splitsville
contrast
variance
disjunction
fission
fragmentation
bisection
separating
abyss
dissociation
dismemberment
divorcement
cleaving
split-up
dividing up
parting of the ways
disruption
dismantling
cleft
abstraction
discontinuity
distance
disunity
disjoining
branching
junction
fork
wide area of difference
breaking apart
uncoupling
disengagement
disseverment
disconnect
subdivision
dialysis
disassociation
partitionment
dichotomy
trichotomy
taking apart
segmentation
dissection
rending
detaching
carving
parceling
US
disjuncture
polarisation
UK
opposition
polarization
US
demarcation
departmentalizing
vivisection
parcelling
UK
ramification
disuniting
disparting
disseverance
carving up
breaking down
cutting up
thermonuclear reaction
atom smashing
atomic reaction
nuclear fission
annulment
splitting the atom
feud
khula
talaq
decree nisi
bust-up
judicial separation
falling-out
break up
official separation
dissolution of marriage
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Noun
▲
An attempt to end the authority of a person or body by rebelling
revolt
rebellion
revolution
mutiny
insurrection
uprising
insurgence
rising
insurgency
riot
coup
putsch
rioting
outbreak
sedition
overthrow
jacquerie
subversion
anarchy
disorder
strike
protest
upheaval
displeasure
regime change
seizure of power
act of defiance
act of resistance
disobedience
defiance
insubordination
resistance
unrest
civil disobedience
civil disorder
dissent
fighting in the streets
agitation
schism
nonconformity
apostasy
heresy
dissension
tumult
takeover
coup d'état
palace revolution
coup d'etat
opposition
demonstration
struggle
recalcitrance
disturbance
ousting
deposition
refusal to obey orders
refusal to obey
bloodless coup
power play
reform
plot
bloodshed
turmoil
turbulence
strife
overturn
uproar
row
violence
change
foment
guerrilla activity
underground activity
government takeover
troublemaking
treason
provocation
incitement
fomentation
inflaming
disloyalty
rabble-rousing
fomentation of discontent
incitement to riot
incitement to rebellion
lawlessness
misrule
mob rule
unruliness
reign of terror
anarchism
furore
UK
furor
US
terrorism
breach of the peace
chaos
confusion
mayhem
mobocracy
ochlocracy
wildness
crime
criminality
undermining
sabotage
destabilization
US
irresponsibility
disruption
trouble-making
destruction
ruin
lack of control
lack of restraint
pandemonium
defeat
destabilisation
UK
disorganization
US
nihilism
misgovernment
nongovernment
disregard
hostility
disorganisation
UK
absence of government
rumpus
fighting
fracas
convulsion
discord
quarrel
affray
brawl
melee
tizzy
discombobulation
biffo
fight
aggro
scrimmage
wilding
shindig
entanglement
imbroglio
snafu
flap
fuss
shindy
bagarre
hoo-ha
argy-bargy
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Noun
▲
The state of not being where one is supposed to be, especially frequently or without good reason
absenteeism
nonattendance
nonappearance
absence
skiving
truancy
desertion
skipping
bunking off
default
non-appearance
non-attendance
failure to appear
leave
nonexistence
no show
staying away
malingering
truanting
wagging
shirking
ditching
playing truant
goofing off
playing hookey
absence without leave
playing the wag
playing hooky
hooky
truantry
cutting class
unexcused absence
class skipping
being AWOL
class cutting
French leave
Noun
▲
A controversial or unorthodox opinion or belief held by a member of a group
heresy
dissidence
heterodoxy
apostasy
unorthodoxy
dissension
nonconformity
revisionism
faction
freethinking
agnosticism
atheism
blasphemy
iconoclasm
idolatry
impiety
non-belief
non-theism
paganism
skepticism
US
scepticism
UK
schism
sectarianism
separatism
unbelief
deviation
disbelief
dissent
divergence
error
fallacy
infidelity
misbelief
nonconformism
profanation
recreancy
recusancy
sacrilege
secularism
sin
tergiversation
unorthodox opinion
heathenism
godlessness
irreligion
nihilism
ungodliness
nonbelief
doubt
profaneness
humanism
incredulity
irreverence
unfaith
fetishism
lack of faith
idolatrism
iconolatry
idol worship
icon worship
idol worshipping
rationalism
negativity
rejection
denial
pessimism
repudiation
cynicism
renunciation
abnegation
nothingness
blank
oblivion
negation
emptiness
nonexistence
nullity
negativism
anarchism
terrorism
lack of conviction
mob rule
absence of moral values
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