Trialist

Quick meaning: Trialist is a noun meaning An advocate of trialism, especially with reference to the proposed creation of a state comprising Austria, Hungary, and a Slavic region.

Meaning

An advocate of trialism, especially with reference to the proposed creation of a state comprising Austria, Hungary, and a Slavic region.

More Meanings

1. Involving three elements; especially, pertaining to a potential state comprising Austria, Hungary, and a Slavic region.
2. (medicine) A person who takes part in a clinical trial, especially as a researcher.
3. (South Africa) A person standing trial in a court of law, especially one of a group of defendants in a high-profile case.
4. (business) A person who tries a product for the first time (as opposed to a regular purchaser); a person who participates in the trial of a new product.
5. (sports, chiefly UK) An athlete who participates in a trial (competition to select players for a team); a person who enters a dog (especially a sheepdog) in a competition.

Example Sentences

models of stationary market conditions slightly underestimate the amount of once-only purchasing by brand trialists

Only if Bosnia-Herzegovina were fully annexed to the empire would it be possible eventually to incorporate it into the structure of a reformed trialist monarchy.

1995, Louella Miles, Perfect Marketing, London: Arrow Business, Chapter 8, p. 56, 90 per cent of profit is said to come from repeat purchasers and the rest from triallists

1998, John Gordon, Three Sheep and a Dog, Auckland: Reed, Chapter 8, p. 107, Event I, the long head […] ends with the hold: sheep at a standstill in a 20-metre ring and held there, with the dog and triallist balanced on either side.

Word Forms

• trialists
• triallist

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