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The reason for the split was the easyJet management's desire to expand rapidly by buying new planes.

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  1. transitive verb To divide from end to end or along the grain by or as if by a sharp blow. See Synonyms at tear1.
  2. transitive verb To break, burst, or rip apart with force; rend. See Synonyms at break.
  3. transitive verb To affect with force in a way that suggests tearing apart: A lightning bolt split the night sky.
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  • The day after the split was announced, however, TIGR started to rehabilitate itself with a suspicious scientific community by posting on its World Wide Web site data on thousands of bacterial gene sequences. —  Understanding the Genome
  • Greene and Annmarie Siwik, chairwoman of the board of directors, both said the split was amicable. —  DailyHerald.com > News
  • Just a clarification; your revenue guidance, Mike, can you give us - and you have talked about what the split is there between the OE and the aftermarket in the $3.5 billion number for 2009? —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • The reason for the split was the easyJet management's desire to expand rapidly by buying new planes. —  The Guardian World News
  • According to both sides the split was amicable and has been in the works since the second half of 2008. —  The Lawyer - Latest News
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split:   splitting ·  splits
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  1. Dutch splitten, from Middle Dutch.

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  1. Not found in Middle English or Anglo-Saxon, and prob. of Low German origin: = OFries. splīta = Middle Dutch, Dutch splijten = Middle Low German splīten, Low German spliten = Middle High German splīzen, German spleissen = Danish splitte, split, = Swedish dial. splitta, split, separate, disentangle (cf. Swedish splittra, separate). Connection with spald, split, cannot be made out: see spald. The English dial. sprit, split, may be a variant of split, or else of Swedish spricka, split. Hence ult. splice, splint, splinter, etc.
  2. = Middle Dutch splete, Dutch spleet, a split, rent, = German spleisse, a splinter, = Danish Swedish split, a split, rent: see split, v.
 

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