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  • adjective Relating to or supported by three groups, especially by three political parties.

Etymologies

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tri- +‎ partisan

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Examples

  • Lieberman focused on other objections Friday, joining Sen. Democrat Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a recent Democrat convert, and Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in what they called a tripartisan amendment proposal to curb costs and improve care.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • The only way we can accomplish our agenda, the only way that the administration will be able to accomplish their agenda, is if we truly work together in now, I guess, what we would call a tripartisan manner.

    CNN Transcript May 24, 2001 2001

  • The fact that so-called moderates will complain about the Boxer bill is simply an additional opportunity to portray the expected "tripartisan" compromise from Sens.

    Bill Scher: Boxer Avoids The Baucus Trap 2009

  • This is a careful, unanimous opinion the a "tripartisan" 3-judge court.

    Rick Hasen: Norm Coleman Unlikely to Prevail on Appeal 2009

  • The only thing I can remember Lady Triangula doing in the Senate was killing our best chance at reauthorizing welfare reform a few years ago, when a "tripartisan" (it included Jeffords) group of Senators came up with a possibly acceptable plan that Sen. Clinton shot down in favor of harsher measures -- presumably using the same keen and "principled" political judgment that impelled her to support the AUMF.

    Obama Camp To Hillary: Not So Fast With That Coronation 2009

  • American Solutions is charged with finding "tripartisan" policies that Republicans, Democrats and Independents can support.

    Troublemaker 2008

  • Since the State of the Union address, the White House and other administration leaders have sent progressively stronger signals of support for the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman "tripartisan" process in the Senate.

    Yahoo! News: Top Stories 2010

  • Since the State of the Union address, the White House and other administration leaders have sent progressively stronger signals of support for the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman "tripartisan" process in the Senate.

    Yahoo! News: Top Stories 2010

  • Lugar largely stayed mum on climate change, an issue that Kerry focused a considerable amount of attention on last year as both a co-sponsor of sweeping legislation with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and later as the leader in "tripartisan" negotiations with Sen..

    Roll Call Print Edition Current Issue 2010

  • Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Lindsey Graham, R-S. C., are working feverishly to craft a "tripartisan" approach for a new cap-and-trade bill.

    Latest Articles Investors.com 2010

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