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What is another word for
defection
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An act or incidence of defecting
A movement of animals or people from one region to another
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
The state or fact of holding a view at variance with established beliefs
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Noun
▲
An act or incidence of defecting
desertion
betrayal
disloyalty
perfidy
faithlessness
apostasy
dereliction
backsliding
absconding
decamping
abandonment
recantation
flight
disaffection
recreancy
estrangement
rebellion
treason
tergiversation
withdrawal
retreat
forsaking
revolt
secession
alienation
disownment
rejection
repudiation
divorce
deficiency
failing
failure
lack
parting
separation
severance
sundering
changing allegiances
changing sides
treachery
conversion
unfaithfulness
deconversion
renunciation of belief
abandonment of belief
recreance
falseness
heresy
dissent
reversion
defecting
infidelity
falsity
perfidiousness
deceitfulness
improbity
inconstancy
fickleness
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
break
slip
getaway
breakout
lam
exodus
decampment
rout
bunk
escaping
exit
liberation
abdication
escapement
bolt
deliverance
flit
spring
beat
bolt for freedom
break-out
vanishing act
running off
jailbreak
US
prison break
gaolbreak
UK
abscondment
outbreak
extrication
release
freedom
elopement
hegira
runaround
springing
AWOL
leave
rescue
sidestepping
vanishing
checking out
exfiltration
taking powder
breakaway
retreating
hasty departure
fugue
more ❯
“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
▲
A movement of animals or people from one region to another
emigration
migration
relocation
departure
movement
exodus
journey
expatriation
travel
voyage
moving
flight
wandering
shift
diaspora
trek
march
resettling
resettlement
crossing
peregrination
removal
settling
transplanting
evacuation
withdrawal
colonisation
UK
colonization
US
displacement
exile
leaving
homesteading
reestablishment
uprooting
moving abroad
moving overseas
immigration
passage
transmigration
settlement
entry
arrival
move
roving
transfer
shifting
hegira
travelling
UK
traveling
US
drifting
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
more ❯
Noun
▲
The act of seceding
secession
apostasy
split
separation
desertion
break
disunion
withdrawal
severance
breakup
parting
retreat
breakaway
leaving
quitting
resignation
departure
exiting
retirement
seceding
disaffiliation
splitting
pulling out
flight
exit
fallback
pullback
exodus
recession
eviction
clearance
abandonment
pullout
abdication
katabasis
egress
vacation
evacuation
extraction
marooning
disengagement
drawing out
pull-out
ebb
moving out
egression
pulling back
escape
decamping
fleeing
disappearance
absconding
decampment
departing
running away
going
getaway
leave
bolting
farewell
leave-taking
breakout
slip
outgo
going away
migration
lam
adieu
offgoing
emigration
hegira
evasion
passage
walking out
vanishing act
rout
passing
bunk
goodbye
outgoing
escaping
removal
spring
flying
forsaking
beat
flit
lighting out
turning tail
break-out
running out on
bolt for freedom
withdrawment
expiration
dissolution
exeunt
diaspora
outpour
outflow
outpouring
gush
journey
abscondment
mass departure
setting-out
recourse
ebbing
going out
chicken run
vacation of a place
liberation
falling back
outbreak
extrication
release
freedom
bolt
elopement
truancy
runaround
deliverance
sidestepping
emptying
springing
AWOL
rescue
running off
betrayal
depopulation
cowardice
unpeopling
tergiversation
elusion
going absent without leave
falling away
going AWOL
going back on
taking French leave
pull-out from
flight from
retreat from
departure from
exodus from
withdrawal from
clearance from
disappearance from
vacation from
bug out
escapement
vanishing
exfiltration
retreating
fugue
checking out
taking powder
hasty departure
leavetaking
congé
embarkation
expatriation
retiral
walkout
takeoff
withdrawing
start
going off
sailing off into the sunset
taking a powder
bow out
setting off
starting out
setting out
taking leave
setting forth
taking off
bowing out
more ❯
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
defiance
insubordination
disobedience
resistance
unrest
civil disobedience
dissent
civil disorder
fighting in the streets
agitation
disturbance
schism
nonconformity
apostasy
heresy
dissension
takeover
tumult
coup d'état
palace revolution
opposition
demonstration
struggle
raging against the machine
coup d'etat
ousting
deposition
bloodless coup
noncooperation
reform
noncompliance
plot
troublemaking
bloodshed
turmoil
turbulence
strife
overturn
uproar
row
violence
change
foment
treason
provocation
incitement
fomentation
inflaming
disloyalty
rabble-rousing
fomentation of discontent
incitement to riot
nonviolent resistance
guerrilla activity
underground activity
resistance movement
government takeover
incitement to rebellion
violent protest
destructive protest
violent demonstration
violent rally
riotous protest
violent demo
disaffection
breach
sabotage
treachery
destabilization
US
subversiveness
undermining
destabilisation
UK
disruption
trouble-making
more ❯
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
truanting
leave
playing truant
nonexistence
absence without leave
missingness
playing hookey
playing the wag
no show
staying away
playing hooky
cutting class
hooky
truantry
ditching
wagging
shirking
class skipping
goofing off
being AWOL
class cutting
unexcused absence
French leave
Noun
▲
The state or fact of holding a view at variance with established beliefs
heresy
dissidence
nonconformity
heterodoxy
dissension
unorthodoxy
revisionism
faction
schism
sectarianism
separatism
deviation
dissent
divergence
error
fallacy
misbelief
nonconformism
recreancy
recusancy
tergiversation
unorthodox opinion
apostasy
infidelity
scepticism
UK
unbelief
skepticism
US
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