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threefold
[ three-fohld ]
adjective
- comprising three parts, members, or aspects; triple:
a threefold program.
- three times as great or as much; treble:
a threefold return on an investment.
adverb
- in threefold manner or measure; trebly.
threefold
/ ˈθriːˌfəʊld /
adjective
- equal to or having three times as many or as much; triple
a threefold decrease
- composed of three parts
a threefold purpose
adverb
- by or up to three times as many or as much
Word History and Origins
Origin of threefold1
Example Sentences
Between January 31, 1981, and January 31, 1989, the debt rose to $2.697 trillion—a threefold increase, or $1.763 trillion.
Since adding the Special Club category to the wine list, Champagne sales at Mas have increased threefold.
Symbolically speaking, the judge said, the need for an unprecedented sentence for the biggest financial crime ever was threefold.
To this consciousness he assigned a threefold content, power, will and knowledge.
The influence of the seventeenth century salon was of a threefold nature—literary, moral, and social.
It is of a threefold character, as we regard its natural condition and the quality of the air.
As in the case of the recipients of full citizenship, so here we may make a threefold division.
I understood what love in despair may be when it is the threefold passion of the heart, the mind, and the senses.
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