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threefer en · NOUN

Etymology

Shortened form of three-for-one or three-in-one, modeled after twofer.

Meanings

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. 2015 February 18, Ken Bannister, “From Our Perspective: Revisiting the Power of Twofers and Threefers”, in Efficient Plant, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2024:
2. Something that has three functions or elements.
   • "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." 2024 May 26, Gabriele Regalbuto , Ashlyn Messier, “Adam Sandler's friends and the films they've starred in opposite the actor”, in Fox News:
   • “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. 2012 November 29, Eric Wilson, “Shopping at the Plaza”, in The New York Times:
   • 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. 2008 February 19, Clyde Haberman, “New Yorker in the White House? Seems Like a Long Shot Now”, in The New York Times:

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