Triple Entente
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Triple Entente
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the understanding between Britain, France, and Russia that developed between 1894 and 1907 and counterbalanced the Triple Alliance of 1882. The Entente became a formal alliance on the outbreak of World War I and was ended by the Russian Revolution in 1917
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Tri′ple Entente′
n.
an understanding between Great Britain, France, and Russia before World War I to counterbalance the Triple Alliance.
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