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[ troi-kuh ] / ˈtrɔɪ kə / SEE SYNONYMS FOR troika ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna Russian carriage, wagon, or sleigh drawn by a team of three horses abreast. a team of three horses driven abreast. any group of three persons, nations, etc., acting equally in unison to exert influence, control, or the like. Origin of troika1835–45; <Russian tróĭka threesome, troika, derivative of tróe three (collective), akin to trithree Words nearby troikatroglobiont, troglodyte, Troglotrema salmincola, trogon, Troia, troika, troilism, troilite, Troilus, Troilus and Cressida, troilus butterfly Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for troikaThe CPR was supposed to be the progressive counterweight among the troika of parties that governed Tunisia before Sheratongate. A Woman Blogger’s Scoop Helped Save Tunisia From Islamists|Thomas A. Bass|April 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST He is already not quite Dole/McCain/Romney, the troika calumniated as sellouts by Cruz at his CPAC speech last week. GOP’s Whack a Mole Addiction|Michael Tomasky|March 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST Next in line is the body louse—the only dangerous member of the troika. Ding Dong, You Have Lice|Kent Sepkowitz|October 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST Dwight Chapin is the least known of this troika, and was the first to be fired. The Nixon Home Movies: Glimpses of Tragedy in ‘Our Nixon’|Eleanor Clift|August 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Couric could be a Today co-host, perhaps as part of a troika with Curry, who had already been offered the job. Matt Lauer’s Bruising Year After Ann Curry’s Ouster Devastated the ‘Today’ Show|Howard Kurtz|March 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST Death, with the grin on his fleshless face, is hurrying them along to it as fast as his troika can go. Raemaekers' Cartoons|Louis Raemaekers The crowd facing the troika divided like water cleft by the hand, and the vehicle flew forward with nothing to oppose it. The Shadow of the Czar|John R. Carling Pavel covered that distance in a post-sleigh drawn by a troika. The White Terror and The Red|Abraham Cahan The third horse of the troika is one of the typically Russian features. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna|Clara Louise Kellogg To assume, as Mr. Gladstone does, that Homer lived within fifty years after the Troika, is to make a purely gratuitous assumption. Myths and Myth-Makers|John Fiske
British Dictionary definitions for troika
nouna Russian vehicle drawn by three horses abreast three horses harnessed abreast a triumvirate Word Origin for troikaC19: from Russian, from troe three Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to troikatriumvirate, three, trine, triple, threesome, triad, trinity, triplet, triangle, triplicate, trilogy, triptych, trey, ternion, triune, triunity |