Threefer
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Something sold at a discount of three for the price of one.
"Thus, it was interesting to see that when the ISO 55001 Asset Management Standard was released last year, it also looks for an asset-management program to deliver its own twofers and threefers."
- 2 Something that has three functions or elements.
"We were so sure, some among us, anyway, that we would have two locals fighting for the big prize in November: the Republican former mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and the Democratic junior senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton. We even prepared for a threefer in case the present mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, he of ever-evolving party status, jumped into the race because he figured the rest of America couldn’t do without him."
Example
More examples"Thus, it was interesting to see that when the ISO 55001 Asset Management Standard was released last year, it also looks for an asset-management program to deliver its own twofers and threefers."
Etymology
Shortened form of three-for-one or three-in-one, modeled after twofer.
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