Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Divided into parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Parted or divided into parts: usually in composition with qualifying or specifying prefix, as bipartite, tripartite, quadripartite. See the compounds.
- In botany, same as
parted . - In entomology, divided by a slit from the apex to the base, as the wings of certain small moths.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Divided nearly to the base.
- adjective Consisting of parts; usually used in compounds specifying the number of parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
divided intoparts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The reason healthcare reform defies simple solutions is that it is a tri-partite relationship with two consumers, two vendors and asymmetrical price signals.
Matthew Yglesias » Will More Insurance Competition Make Things Better? 2010
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One of the terrible facts about assassinations that Loughner seems to have grasped is that you can't commit one without becoming an "assassin" -- a boldface, tri-partite name that gets slung down through history.
Giffords shooter Jared Lee Loughner's YouTube message to the world Alexandra Petri 2011
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Oh, that wouldn't do, because one side or other will want to claim it, just as Labour claim the NHS although it was a tri-partite initiative.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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"Oh, that wouldn't do, because one side or other will want to claim it, just as Labour claim the NHS although it was a tri-partite initiative."
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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According to the White Paper, a Tory government would scrap this third wing of the tri-partite system - passing many of its functions over the the Bank of England, and putting in its place a new, beefed-up Consumer Protection Agency, which would "take responsibilities to protect the consumer that are currently and confusingly divided between the FSA and Office of Fair Trading".
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Long story short, the Tories say that they'll ditch the tri-partite system.
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In response to this life altering issue, Laura and Harry with a group of colleagues founded the New York Center for Autism (NYCA), a tri-partite organization dedicated to autism education, community outreach and biomedical research.
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Long story short, the Tories say that they'll ditch the tri-partite system.
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Dumping the tri-partite system into the rubbish bin of history.
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Entire sections (e.g. Part 1: What Went Wrong, pp. 8-18) are devoted to atacking Gordon Brown's handling of the economy, his tri-partite regulation system, and the debt bubble which expanded on the back of it - with the subsequent emphasis being on Not Letting It Happen Again.
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