Big Three
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -iː
Proper noun
[edit]- (UK, World War II) The World War II military alliance consisting of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
- Synonym: Grand Alliance
- The leaders of that alliance: Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.
- Any group of three major or largest corporations in a given industry, especially when such a small group has oligopoly or near-oligopoly; as:
- (US) The three major traditional commercial broadcast television networks in the United States: CBS (the Columbia Broadcasting System), NBC (the National Broadcasting Company), and ABC (the American Broadcasting Company)
- (US, historical) During the mid- to late twentieth century, the three biggest automaker corporations in North America: General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler.
- (economics) China, Japan, and Korea, three major Asian economies.
- (exercise) The deadlift, squat and benchpress.
- 2021 July 9, Sakdirat Kaewunruen, Junhui Huang, Jordan Haslam, “Insights into noise and vibration stemming from the gym’s heavy lifting”, in Sport Sciences for Health, volume 18, , pages 277–286:
- The Squat, Deadlift, and Bench Press are widely accepted to be the ‘Big Three’ powerlifting exercises by strength and conditioning experts.
- (tennis) Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal, each considered to be among the greatest tennis players of all time.