tripartite

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It is evident it should have been a tripartite, and not a dual, agreement.

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  1. adjective Composed of or divided into three parts.
  2. adjective Relating to or executed by three parties: a tripartite agreement.

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  • The longer term forecast that the world will end up with three reserve currencies is based on references by various influential parties to a "tripartite" or "tri-polar" system. —  Money and Markets: Free Investment Email Newsletter
  • Afghans accept U.S. probe offer on civilian deaths Afghanistan has accepted a U.S. proposal for a tripartite investigation into Herat province last month, a foreign ministry official said on Wednesday. —  Yahoo! News: Top Stories
  • John Kingman told MPs that the 'tripartite' system set up by Mr Brown - made up of the Treasury, the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority - had not operated well in a crisis. —  Home | Mail Online
  • Since modern man sees himself as only a body and a brain unlike the tripartite divisions the bible speaks of, body, soul and spirit; we could safely say that this doctrine is bound to fly over a lot of heads un-noticed and unheeded. —  The Reality Check
  • First, it is one thing for the tripartite council, meant to be a policy body, to come up with very broad figures while others remain unclear. —  SofiaEcho RSS feed
 

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  1. from late Middle English trypartyte, from Old French (and F.) tripartite = Provencal tripartit = Spanish Portuguese Italian tripartito, from Latin tripartitus, tripertitus, divided into three parts, from tres (tri-), three, + partitus, past participle of partiri, part, divide: see partite.
 

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/ˈtrɪpərtaɪt/
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