"troika" meaning in English

See troika in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈtɹɔɪ.kə/ [UK, US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-troika.wav Forms: troikas [plural], troiki [plural]
Etymology: From Russian тро́йка (trójka, “a group of three”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ru|тро́йка||a group of three}} Russian тро́йка (trójka, “a group of three”) Head templates: {{en-noun|+|troiki}} troika (plural troikas or troiki)
  1. A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast. Categories (topical): Carriages, Forms of government, Russian politics Translations (carriage): тро́йка (trójka) [feminine] (Belarusian), тро́йка (trójka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), troica [feminine] (Catalan), 三套車 /三套车 (sāntàochē) (Chinese Mandarin), 三套馬車 /三套马车 (sāntàomǎchē) (Chinese Mandarin), trojka [feminine] (Czech), trojka (Dutch), troikka (Finnish), kolmivaljakko (Finnish), troïka [feminine] (French), Troika [feminine] (German), τρόικα (tróika) [feminine] (Greek), trojka (Hungarian), troika (Ido), troika (Indonesian), トロイカ (toroika) (Japanese), 트로이카 (teuroika) (Korean), тро́јка (trójka) [feminine] (Macedonian), troyka [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), trojka [feminine] (Polish), trójka [feminine] (Polish), troika [feminine] (Portuguese), тро́йка (trójka) [feminine] (Russian), тро́јка [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), trójka [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), trojka [feminine] (Slovak), trojka [feminine] (Slovene), troica [feminine] (Spanish), trojka [common-gender] (Swedish), རྟ་གསུམ་རྟ་ཤིང (rta gsum rta shing) (Tibetan), troyka (Turkish), трі́йка (tríjka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Soviet or Russian contexts. Categories (topical): Russian politics, Three Synonyms (council of three): government Synonyms (group of three): threesome Coordinate_terms (council of three): government
    Sense id: en-troika-en-noun-MgqHtphU Disambiguation of Russian politics: 49 51 Disambiguation of Three: 43 57 Categories (other): Terms with Czech translations Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'council of three': 17 83 Disambiguation of 'group of three': 16 84 Disambiguation of 'council of three': 17 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: triad, trio

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          "text": "“He said, 'Let me get the best people.' And that's what he did. He got John Kalodner and Gary Gersh and Tom Zutaut, and they became stars in their own right.” Over the ensuing decade, that troika of talent-finders would bring a host of multiplatinum artists—from Cher and Aerosmith to Guns N' Roses and Nirvana—to Geffen.",
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          "text": "The bare troika of Boolean operators brought them into metaphorical being.",
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          "ref": "2006, Barney Hoskyns, Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends, John Wiley & Sons, published 2006, →ISBN, page 265:",
          "text": "“He said, 'Let me get the best people.' And that's what he did. He got John Kalodner and Gary Gersh and Tom Zutaut, and they became stars in their own right.” Over the ensuing decade, that troika of talent-finders would bring a host of multiplatinum artists—from Cher and Aerosmith to Guns N' Roses and Nirvana—to Geffen.",
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          "ref": "2013 January 11, Tom Shone, “Oscar nominations pull a surprise by showing some taste — but will it last?”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "No longer is the best picture going to be a toss-up between that troika of national-historical heavies: Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty.",
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      "word": "kolmivaljakko"
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      "word": "troïka"
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      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "Troika"
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      "sense": "carriage",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "τρόικα"
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      "word": "troika"
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      "sense": "carriage",
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      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "teuroika",
      "sense": "carriage",
      "word": "트로이카"
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      "lang": "Macedonian",
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      "sense": "carriage",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "тро́јка"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "carriage",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "trojka"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "carriage",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "carriage",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "troika"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "carriage",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "тро́йка"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "carriage",
      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "trojka"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "carriage",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "troica"
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      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "rta gsum rta shing",
      "sense": "carriage",
      "word": "རྟ་གསུམ་རྟ་ཤིང"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "carriage",
      "word": "troyka"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tríjka",
      "sense": "carriage",
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      ],
      "word": "трі́йка"
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}

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