tripartite
/trʌɪˈpɑːtʌɪt
/adjective
1Shared by or involving three parties: a tripartite coalition government...
- The two parties are part of the tripartite coalition Cabinet, together with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, but failed to come up with a joint candidate for the first round of the elections.
- In my view that must depend upon the arrangements reached between the parties in this tripartite scheme and the commercial realities of the situation.
- The king made the statement just two days before tripartite talks by the parties.
2Consisting of three parts: a tripartite classification...
- She also examines three of the four border regions of Indian culture where this tripartite classification does not prevail: Kashmir, Kerala and Bengal.
- Ordinary Lao are likely to use the tripartite classification or even derogatory terms for those designated Lao Theung and Meo.
- Last on the list was the tripartite classification of the productive factors.
Derivatives
tripartitely
- Other objectives of this event are: to develop concrete rural job creation projects driven tripartitely.
- This was because agricultural extension activities were tripartitely funded by World Bank, State and Federal governments.
- Our Group felt there was a clear need to communicate what the organisation is about and how we work tripartitely.
tripartition
- Another difficulty arises from the tripartition of the data to identify the covarion sites.
- This tripartition is a trap lying in wait for unsuspecting garden designers who, like God, intervene in the world of natural laws and unfolding evolution trying to make nature or the world into a better place.
- Yet the appeal to tripartition as the reassertion in triangular format of dialectical possibilities otherwise self-defeating achieves little.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin tripartitus, from tri- 'three' + partitus 'divided' (past participle of partiri).
Rhymes
- orthophosphate
- orthophosphoric acid
- orthophoto
- orthophotograph
- orthophotomap
- orthophyre
- orthophyric
- orthopinacoid
- orthopinakoid
- orthoploid
- orthopnea
- orthopneic
- roll-neck
- rollocking
- rollock naked
- rollocks
- roll-off
- roll of honour
- roll on
- roll one's own
- roll-on roll-off
- roll (or throw) of the dice
- roll-out
- rollover
- rollover bar