three‧fold/ˈθriːfəʊld $ -foʊld/ adjective three times as much or as many: ▪ increase production threefold
—threefold adverb
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a threefold/fourfold/fivefold etc increase (=an increase by three, four etc times) ▪ The figures show a threefold increase in incidents of car theft. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS NOUN increase ▪ It blamed the rise in fuel prices on the threefoldincrease in fuel consumption in the first half of the year. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A much earlier development than the biblical canon was the evolution of the threefold ministry of bishop, presbyter, and deacon. ▪ It has a threefold purpose: Spirituality, Apostolate and Friendship. ▪ Our threefold classification of participant, subject, and parochial is only the beginning of a classification of political cultures. ▪ The threefold model of church growth of cell, congregation and celebration works at Ichthus to great effect. ▪ The catastrophe they inflict is threefold. ▪ The controversies that have since arisen are of threefold origin. ▪ This threefold classification of political cultures does not assume that one orientation replaces the others. ▪ We gained a threefold improvement in accuracy and almost a fivefold improvement in required off-line training time.