third party

See also: third-party

English

Alternative forms

• 3rd party, 3d party

Pronunciation

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Noun

third party (plural third parties)

1. (business, commerce) Someone not directly involved in a transaction; an entity beyond the seller (first party) and customer (second party).

   A seller may employ a third party to perform specific services to augment the value of a product, such as packing and distribution.

2. (law) Someone only incidentally or tangentially connected to an incident or dispute; someone other than the principals; a bystander or independent witness.
3. (politics, chiefly US) A political party in opposition to the main parties in a two-party system.
   • 2010, Duncan Watts, Dictionary of American Government and Politics, →ISBN, page 177:

     Those who belong to the Libertarian Party serve a much larger pro-liberty community and have the specific mission of electing libertarians to public office. They traditionally billed themselves as 'America's largest third party'.

Derived terms

• third-party (adjective)
• third-party (verb)

Related terms

• first-party
• first party
• party
• second party
• second-party
• third

 

Translations

someone not directly involved in a transaction.

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第三方 (zh) (dì-sān fāng), 第三者 (zh) (dì-sānzhě)

• Czech: třetí strana f
• Danish: tredjepart c
• Dutch: derde (nl) m or f
• Finnish: kolmas osapuoli, kolmas henkilö, kolmas (fi); ulkopuolinen (fi)
• French: tiers (fr) m (rare: tierce partie (fr) f)
• Georgian: მესამე მხარე (mesame mxare), მესამე პირი (mesame ṗiri)
• German: Dritte (de) pl
• Hindi: तृतीय पक्ष m (tŕtīya pakṣ)
• Hungarian: harmadik/kívülálló fél
• Italian: terzo (it) m, terza parte f
• Japanese: 第三者 (ja) (daisansha)
• Korean: 제삼자 (ko) (jesamja)
• Macedonian: трето лице n (treto lice)
• Norwegian: tredjeperson m

  Bokmål: tredjemann m, tredjepart m

  Nynorsk: tredjemann m, tredjepart m

• Persian: شخص ثالث (shaks-e sales)
• Polish: osoba trzecia f
• Portuguese: terceiros m
• Romanian: a treia persoană f
• Russian: тре́тье лицо́ (ru) n (trétʹje licó)
• Sicilian: terzu (scn) m, terza parti f
• Spanish: tercero (es) m
• Swedish: tredje part (sv) c, tredje man (sv) c
• Thai: บุคคลภายนอก (th) (bùk-kon-paai-nɔ̂ɔk)
• Turkish: üçüncü kişi (tr), üçüncü şahıs

a political party in opposition to the main parties in a two-party system

• Finnish: kolmas puolue
• French: troisième parti m
• Georgian: მესამე პარტია (mesame ṗarṭia)
• Italian: terzo polo m
• Japanese: 第三党 (daisantō)
• Macedonian: трета партија f (treta partija)
• Romanian: al treilea partid

See also

• two-party system
• three-party system
• third-party