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English
Noun
third way (plural third ways)
- An approach or solution which strives for an alternative to or middle ground between two opposing viewpoints.
- 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.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see third, way.
Translations
approach or solution which strives for an alternative to or middle ground between two opposing viewpoints
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