0 the point at which two people or organizations separate:
The parting of the ways came after a series of disagreements between the singer and his song-writer.
1 different ideas or a disagreement about something that make two people or groups decide they cannot work together any longer:
When did the two countries come to a parting of the ways?
But with foundation hospitals, we have an apparent split—a parting of the ways, a downside.
The big question is how we want to achieve that, and that is where we come to a parting of the ways.
We have come in this matter to a parting of the ways.
It would be a great pity if there were a parting of the ways in that respect.
Indeed, they had come to a parting of the ways.
This is so especially when there has been a parting of the ways between old associates.
It discloses, too, that we have now come to a parting of the ways on the bi-partisan foreign policy pursued by this country since 1945.
