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TRIUMVIRATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("triumvirate" is a kind of...):
threesome; triad; trinity; trio (three people considered as a unit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "triumvirate"):
troika (a modern Russian triumvirate)