Definition of "defection" []

• An act or incidence of defecting (noun)

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• "Her mentor handles what he calls her defection very poorly and they have not spoken to one another in six months."
• "Their defection from the progressive coalition over the past two years is the main reason Democrats are facing a beat-down tomorrow."
• "Beverly Si lls, for instance, made the cover of Time in 1971, and Mikhail Baryshnikov was a full-fledged media idol within a few months of his 1974 defection from the Soviet Union."