third party
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3.9
- noun
- /θɜrd ˈpɑrti/
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tercero
- I had an agreement to sell it to a third party.
- act as a third party
- third-party involvement
- third-party intervention
They also have a third party private auditing system.
- They also have a third party private auditing system.
- And you think about things like where third parties provide that payment.
- There are some firms that are now doing third party independent laboratory tests.
- He's got a third party involved who I knew.
- I mean, does it require third party support?
- So having a third party, a professional one, that's very important.
- So the engine we couldn't control that was from a third party, you know, supplier.
- And these network ads can come from third party or it can come from users as well.
- What percentage of the time is there a third party involved in affair?
- And actually it's many of the same third party firms.
- I can't, but I believe various agencies and third parties can access that data.
- Where in VS Code many things you do require loading third party extensions.
- We're making new rules now about aiding a third party or proxy war and we don't.
Examples
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Our credit cards are through a third party.
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The client has confirmed that a third party may be involved.
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So to have a third party makes no real sense.
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And you think about things like where third parties provide that payment.
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So your credit score tells third parties how likely you are to pay what you owe.
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Presentation may be by the child, a parent, or an interested third party, such as a school teacher.
Academic text (2011) -
This usually indicates the involvement of a third party.
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In finance, we rely on trusted third parties like banks, credit card companies, remittance services.
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People should be able to sell their information to third-party advertisers if they want to.
Academic text (2012) -
The lawyer suggested that a third party should review the contract before we sign it.
How Involved
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person or group besides the two primarily involved' is directly and compositionally derived from 'third' (an additional/ordinal) plus 'party' (a participant or side in a matter). This adjectival+noun combination follows a common and cross-linguistic pattern in legal/transactional contexts, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings can infer the MWE.
Etymology
Third party comes from the simple image of counting people: if two people are involved, anyone else is the third party. So it means a person or group who is not one of the two main sides.