Meaning of threefer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something sold at a discount of three for the price of one.
2. Something that has three functions or elements.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

““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.”

“"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."”

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