trialogue

American  

[trahy-uh-lawg, -log] / ˈtraɪ əˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg /

noun

1. a discussion or conversation in which three persons or groups participate.

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Etymology

Origin of trialogue

1525–35; tri- + (di)alogue, mistaken as a formation with di- ¹

Example Sentences

The EU is finalising the new rules through its trialogue process, in which the European commission, council and parliament negotiate a final version of the text.

From The Guardian

What began as dialogue, gathered energy as trialogue, and peaked as pentalogue, soon topples like a Babel tower and disperses into monologues of unconsoled dissociation: five separate “friends” unable to communicate, unable to connect, unable even to remember, nattering to themselves like lunatics, haunting the hallways, counting the stairs.

From New York Times

With Thomas Bock, now a professor of psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Hamburg, she developed a “trialogue” initiative in 1989, designed to encourage conversation between patients, friends and relatives, and mental-health professionals.

From Washington Post

“Any amendment would mean breaking the trialogue agreement, leaving no time to reconsider a new text before the European elections, and leaving European citizens, businesses and the creative sector adrift in the Digital Single Market,” it said.

From Reuters

Together, these findings reveal the trialogue that exists between the microbiota, the host and environmental factors and that contributes to common idiopathic diseases.

From Nature