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See also: Third Way
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]third way (plural third ways)
- An approach or solution which strives for an alternative to or middle ground between two opposing viewpoints. [from 17th c.]
- Synonym: via media
- 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 358:
- It is a place of no compromise, thought Guillam, a place of no third way.
- (politics) An ideology which seeks to find middle ground between right- and left-wing politics, associated during the 1990s with various centre-left political parties in Europe, North America and Australia. [from 20th c.]
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see third, way.
Translations
[edit]approach or solution which strives for an alternative to or middle ground between two opposing viewpoints
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