Definition of 'tripartite'
adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
You can use tripartite to describe something that has three parts or that involves three groups of people.
[formal] ...tripartite meetings between Government ministers, trades union leaders and industrialists.
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adjective
2.
involving three participants
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Ten years ago he helped to set up this tripartite system. Times, Sunday Times (2007)It seemed a pretty good idea at the time and certainly better than the risible tripartite system that went before. Times, Sunday Times (2015)The tripartite structure was incoherent, without clear lines of accountability. Times, Sunday Times (2012)The tripartite system needs rethinking. Times, Sunday Times (2007)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 (2011)The tripartite system of regulation, which he defended last night, clearly has not worked. Times, Sunday Times (2009)First, we need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the tripartite arrangement, now that it has been tested and found wanting. Times, Sunday Times (2007)
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