Three-way means involving three parties or directions. A three-way split.
It is used of switches, deals and elections, and each is harder than a two-way version. A three-way election can be won on a third of the vote, which changes how campaigns are run.
1adjectivethree-wayInvolving three parties or directions.
“The three-way negotiation took eleven months.”
three-way is a quality.
Three plus way, on the pattern of two-way.
The sense referring to a serving of Cincinnati chili was coined in the 1920s by Tom and John Kiradjieff, Slavic-Macedonian immigrants to Cincinnati, for their Empress Chili chain. a doublet of trivia.
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