troika

[ troi-kuh ]

/ ˈtrɔɪ kə /

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noun

a Russian carriage, wagon, or sleigh drawn by a team of three horses abreast.

a team of three horses driven abreast.

any group of three persons, nations, etc., acting equally in unison to exert influence, control, or the like.

Nearby words

troglodyte, troglotrema salmincola, trogon, trogonoid, troia, troika, troilism, troilite, troilus, troilus and cressida, troilus butterfly

Origin of troika

1835–45; < Russian tróĭka threesome, troika, derivative of tróe three (collective), akin to tri three

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Examples from the Web for troika

The CPR was supposed to be the progressive counterweight among the troika of parties that governed Tunisia before Sheratongate.
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He is already not quite Dole/McCain/Romney, the troika calumniated as sellouts by Cruz at his CPAC speech last week.
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Next in line is the body louse—the only dangerous member of the troika.
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Dwight Chapin is the least known of this troika, and was the first to be fired.
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Couric could be a Today co-host, perhaps as part of a troika with Curry, who had already been offered the job.
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Death, with the grin on his fleshless face, is hurrying them along to it as fast as his troika can go.
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The crowd facing the troika divided like water cleft by the hand, and the vehicle flew forward with nothing to oppose it.
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Pavel covered that distance in a post-sleigh drawn by a troika.
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The third horse of the troika is one of the typically Russian features.
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To assume, as Mr. Gladstone does, that Homer lived within fifty years after the Troika, is to make a purely gratuitous assumption.
Myths and Myth-Makers|John Fiske

British Dictionary definitions for troika

troika

/ (ˈtrɔɪkə) /

noun

a Russian vehicle drawn by three horses abreast

three horses harnessed abreast

a triumvirate

Word Origin for troika

C19: from Russian, from troe three

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Word Origin and History for troika

troika

1842, "carriage drawn by three horses abreast," from Russian troika "three-horse team, any group of three," from collective numeral troe "three" + diminutive suffix -ka. Sense of "any group of three administrators, triumvirate" is first recorded 1945.

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