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UK
/tɹˈaɪpɑːtˌaɪt/
]
[ US /tɹaɪˈpɑɹˌtaɪt/ ]
[ US /tɹaɪˈpɑɹˌtaɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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involving three parties or elements
a tripartite division
a three-way playoff
a tripartite treaty
How To Use tripartite In A Sentence
- By explaining the way Japanese and Western scholars periodize Chinese history using tripartite classical, medieval, and modern frameworks, he places his history in a framework that makes it more accessible to Western readers.
- Hemichordates are distinguished by a tripartite division of the body.
- 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 minister is to hold tripartite meetings with the oil and car industries to discuss ways of reducing pollution.
- Ordinary Lao are likely to use the tripartite classification or even derogatory terms for those designated Lao Theung and Meo.
- Mythology combines with philosophy to account for the tripartite division of Fate into the Parca: FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE
- a tripartite division
- He returned to Palestine empty-handed and politically weakened after the tripartite summit this week with President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mideast peace talks going nowhere
- The parallel import involves the tripartite main body, parallel importer, domestic dealer, patent holder.
- He has warned that the tripartite system introduced in 1997 would leave no one in charge and worries that the same might happen now. Times, Sunday Times