See threefer on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Shortened form of three-for-one or three-in-one, modeled after twofer.", "forms": [ { "form": "threefers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "threefer (plural threefers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "53 47", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2015 February 18, Ken Bannister, “From Our Perspective: Revisiting the Power of Twofers and Threefers”, in Efficient Plant:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Something sold at a discount of three for the price of one." ], "id": "en-threefer-en-noun--y~bR61S", "links": [ [ "discount", "discount" ], [ "three", "three" ], [ "price", "price" ] ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "53 47", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 56", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "38 62", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "38 62", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Three", "orig": "en:Three", "parents": [ "Numbers", "All topics", "Terms by semantic function", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2008 February 19, Clyde Haberman, “New Yorker in the White House? Seems Like a Long Shot Now”, in The New York Times:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012 November 29, Eric Wilson, “Shopping at the Plaza”, in The New York Times:", "text": "“It’s a threefer, not a twofer,” she said, holding a clutch-within-a-clutch that costs $109.90 and can be worn three ways.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2024 May 26, Gabriele Regalbuto , Ashlyn Messier, “Adam Sandler's friends and the films they've starred in opposite the actor”, in Fox News:", "text": "\"I'm so busy talking to him and Jennifer Aniston about doing a threefer, if you will,\" Barrymore told \"Entertainment Tonight.\" \"I really want to make it happen. Timing is everything.\"", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Something that has three functions or elements." ], "id": "en-threefer-en-noun-Ma~YyrOe", "links": [ [ "function", "function" ], [ "element", "element" ] ] } ], "word": "threefer" }
{ "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Three" ], "etymology_text": "Shortened form of three-for-one or three-in-one, modeled after twofer.", "forms": [ { "form": "threefers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "threefer (plural threefers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2015 February 18, Ken Bannister, “From Our Perspective: Revisiting the Power of Twofers and Threefers”, in Efficient Plant:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Something sold at a discount of three for the price of one." ], "links": [ [ "discount", "discount" ], [ "three", "three" ], [ "price", "price" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2008 February 19, Clyde Haberman, “New Yorker in the White House? Seems Like a Long Shot Now”, in The New York Times:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012 November 29, Eric Wilson, “Shopping at the Plaza”, in The New York Times:", "text": "“It’s a threefer, not a twofer,” she said, holding a clutch-within-a-clutch that costs $109.90 and can be worn three ways.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2024 May 26, Gabriele Regalbuto , Ashlyn Messier, “Adam Sandler's friends and the films they've starred in opposite the actor”, in Fox News:", "text": "\"I'm so busy talking to him and Jennifer Aniston about doing a threefer, if you will,\" Barrymore told \"Entertainment Tonight.\" \"I really want to make it happen. Timing is everything.\"", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Something that has three functions or elements." ], "links": [ [ "function", "function" ], [ "element", "element" ] ] } ], "word": "threefer" }
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