secession

Word family

se·ces·sion /sɪˈseʃən/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

when a country or state officially stops being part of another country and becomes independent 退出，脱离 OPP accession

a vote in favor of secession

赞成独立的一票

secession from

Croatia’s secession from Yugoslavia

克罗地亚脱离南斯拉夫

Examples from the Corpus

secession• It was the lack of democracy and equality which impelled the oppressed to fight for secession.• Other officials expressed concern that the proposed mechanism might actually prove to make secession impossible in practice.• This time he can not just send in the army to take out Podgorica, because there is no secession under way.• The daily papers teemed with the dreary records of secession...• The representatives of national groups increasingly demanded the right of autonomy, of self-government, if not outright secession.• More recently, the threat of Quebec's secession confronted the country with the very real possibility of political breakup.• In the south the enforcement of a no-fly zone by western aircraft has raised the possibility of a Shia secession.• But some staff members have at one point expressed sympathy for a Valley secession.

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Corpus

BNC: 17439 COCA: 14688

secession

Government programmes and policies: amnesty, Balkanisation, Balkanization...

Relating to or describing government policies: bureaucratic, Congressional, constitutional...