Cleavage (Noun)
Meaning 1
The line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts).
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Nouns denoting body parts.
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Meaning 2
The act of cleaving or splitting.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 3
(embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum.
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 4
The breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules.
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 5
The state of being split or cleft; "there was a cleavage between the liberal and conservative members".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- A new era of globalization led to economic growth but also deepened the social cleavage between rich and poor countries.
- There was a deepening cleavage within the company's board of directors on how to approach the growing market trends.
- Rural development experts identify social and geographical cleavage between areas within their specific sector that cannot fully reap development dividend from them.
- For too long the history of international trade relations and competition in Brazil reflected its geography-driven socioeconomic cleavage of south against the interior north east regions.
- Migration brings important pressures upon new generation leadership such as geographic dispersion beyond native hometown coupled by personal independence based deeply onto career to wider regions against conservative generation mindset split driving many unseen life internalizations emerging growing distance building severe career commitment causing within immediate friendship new formation divide great existing with socio-class origin network showing further internal growing cleavage resulting into disconnection deepening to class divide emerging fully.