Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Once in three years.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Once in three years.
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- adverb Occurring at intervals three
years apart.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the photograph I am required to take triennially for my driver's license, no glasses are in evidence.
Take Away My License 2008
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In large households much of the food supply was contracted for on an annual basis—sometimes even triennially—with purveyors who acted as middlemen.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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In large households much of the food supply was contracted for on an annual basis—sometimes even triennially—with purveyors who acted as middlemen.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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They are given triennially an enormous thick fur coat, cap, and gloves, so their wardrobes are not large, and some of the men seem to take little interest in keeping even their few garments clean or tidy.
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The meetings are presided over by a majordomo elected triennially, and who must be the owner of a boat over 40 ft. long.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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Legislative branch: unicameral Assembly of the States (57 seats -- 53 elected including 12 senators popularly elected for six-year terms, half retiring every third year, 12 constables popularly elected triennially, and 29 deputies popularly elected triennially) elections: last held NA (next to be held NA) election results: percent of vote -- NA; seats -- independents 52
The 1999 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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The Diet, convoked triennially, consists of nobles, clergy, burgesses and peasants, but the country is chiefly governed by the
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Speech to the Deaf, all meeting, as a usual thing, triennially in different years.
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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The Bill proposed that the Council should be elected triennially on the same franchise as that on which local authorities are at present elected, and its powers were to be exercised by four Committees -- of
Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell
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The third examination for the Chin Shih, or "Entered Scholar," degree was also held triennially, but at the national capital, and only those among the Ch'ü Jên who had not already taken office were eligible.
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Contains two different words using alternate letters only:
From 'T': tinily. From 'R': renal.
June 21, 2008