Definition of "partite" [par•tite]

• Divided into parts. (adjective)

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• "The reason healthcare reform defies simple solutions is that it is a tri-partite relationship with two consumers, two vendors and asymmetrical price signals."
• "One of the terrible facts about assassinations that Loughner seems to have grasped is that you can't commit one without becoming an "assassin" -- a boldface, tri-partite name that gets slung down through history."
• ""Oh, that wouldn't do, because one side or other will want to claim it, just as Labour claim the NHS although it was a tri-partite initiative.""