third party
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.10 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone not directly involved in a transaction; an entity beyond the seller (first party) and customer (second party).
noun
Someone only incidentally or tangentially connected to an incident or dispute; someone other than the principals; a bystander or independent witness.
noun
A person or party not directly involved with an arrangement, in contrast to active parties, characteristically the first party (producer) and second party (consumer).
Example Sentences
- "A seller may employ a third party to perform specific services to augment the value of a product, such as packing and distribution."
- "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'."
Usage
- American usage