Crossword clues for triumvirate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triumvirate \Tri*um"vi*rate\, n. [L. triumviratus: cf. F. triumvirat.]
Government by three in coalition or association; the term of such a government.
A coalition or association of three in office or authority; especially, the union of three men who obtained the government of the Roman empire.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Latin triumviratus, from triumvir (see triumvir).
Wiktionary
n. A group or association of three, especially three statesman.
WordNet
n. a group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority
Wikipedia
A triumvirate ( Latin, triumvirātus, from trēs three + vir man) is a political regime dominated by three powerful individuals, each a triumvir (pl. triumvirs or triumviri). The arrangement can be formal or informal, and though the three are usually equal on paper, in reality this is rarely the case. The term can also be used to describe a state with three different military leaders who all claim to be the sole leader.
In the context of the Soviet Union and Russia, the term troika (Russian for "threesome") is used for "triumvirate", directly borrowed from Russian language. Eventually the word "troika" came into usage in other contexts.
Triumvirate is a 1973 collaboration by Mike Bloomfield, John Hammond, Jr. and Dr. John. Although other recordings were done by the three, this is the only album they released together.
Usage examples of "triumvirate".
Triumvir of Arcos, but we did, and now we have a friend here who has promised to lay our case before the other two members of the Triumvirate.
The triumvirate of childhood plagues a freckled carrottop with a dimple.
The occupant of the pew in the hall, having said thus much, stirs the fire and leaves the triumvirate to warm themselves.
The only condition attached to the pass, which is signed by one of the honourable Triumvirate, is that you must carry no despatches out of Pretoria.
Maynard Allardeck, acting as Steward already at several big meetings, was aiming for the triumvirate, the three Stewards of the Jockey Club, from among whom the Senior Steward was triannually elected.
Inveterate murderers, audacious burglars, bloodthirsty bushrangers, were the ruling triumvirate, the scour of old Europe, called Vandemonians, in this bullock-drivers' land.
Yet, he had no sooner committed his effects to the care of this triumvirate, than his fancy was visited with direful warnings, which produced cold sweats and palpitations, and threw him into such agonies of apprehension as he had never known before.
She knows I wouldn't take the trouble of actually reprimanding her if she made a move against a member of the Triumvirate.
I can see that, but what good is a weakened Asmodeus going to do me when I have the triumvirate breathing down my neck?
I barely managed to get Sebastian out without bringing the house down around our ears, and that, I'm positive, is only because Christian was distracting Asmodeus enough that he couldn't throw his power into the triumvirate.
Among its many recent demotions, motive has lost its place in the old law enforcement triumvirate: means, motive, opportunity.
There was the ghost sensation of higher geometries folding impossibly away into lower dimensionalities, and the event horizon of her triumvirate mind closed.
How many dwarves and elves and humans would have to lie dead among those hilltops before the wretched triumvirate gave up their thoughts of dislodging him and accepted his conquest as final?
The whole planet is administered by a council of ministers, at the head of which is a triumvirate consisting of one gorilla, one orangutan, and one chimpanzee.
What it works out to is that Karen Landy, and probably the Triumvirate as well, doesn't give a hoot if the IBI joins up in the Subversive Party or not.