tristate

/trahy-steyt/US // ˈtraɪˌsteɪt //UK // (ˈtraɪˌsteɪt) //

三态,三叉戟,三国集团,三国演义

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : pertaining to a territory made up of three adjoining states: a tristate league.
- : pertaining to the three adjoining parts of such states: the tristate region of Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska.

Broadcast news network News 12, which covers local news in the tristate area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, is far from exempt from this situation.
This likely means the shuttering of some tourist-friendly long-running musical productions, which may have exhausted their tristate audiences, in favor of recently opened musicals, star-vehicle plays, and special limited-run and concert events.
In other words, there are as many Noodles & Co.'s in North Dakota as there are in the heavily populated tristate area.
Late Friday afternoon is no time to be negotiating your way through the tristate metro area, by car or train.