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troika
OXFORD DICTIONARY
troika, n.
1 a a Russian vehicle with a team of three horses abreast. b this team.
2 a group of three people, esp. as an administrative council.
1 a a Russian vehicle with a team of three horses abreast. b this team.
2 a group of three people, esp. as an administrative council.
Etymology
Russ. f. troe three
THESAURUS
troika
bipartisanship, clover, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, complicity, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, cooperation, cooperativeness, deuce-ace, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, esprit, esprit de corps, fellow feeling, fellowship, harmony, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, leash, mass action, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octet, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quintet, reciprocity, septet, set of three, sextet, shamrock, solidarity, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trefoil, trey, triad, trialogue, triangle, tricorn, trident, triennium, trihedron, trilogy, trimester, trine, trinity, trinomial, trio, triphthong, triple, triple crown, triple threat, triplet, triplopy, tripod, triptych, trireme, triseme, triskelion, trisul, triumvirate, triune, triunity, trivet, united actionFor further exploring for "troika" in Webster Dictionary Online