Third party

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Third party is often used in the English language in connection with any relationship between two parties or entities to refer to some other person or entity with some involvement, and may refer to:

  • Third party (politics), in any two-party system of politics, a third party is a party other than the two dominant ones
  • Third-party developer, a hardware or software developer not directly tied to the primary product that a consumer is using
    • Third-party software component is a reusable software component developed to be either freely distributed or sold by an entity other than the original vendor of the development platform
  • Third party (civil litigation), a party brought into a civil legal proceeding by a defendant or by another third party
  • Third-party verification (TPV) is a process of getting an independent third party company to confirm that the customer is actually requesting a change or ordering a new service or product
  • Third party technique is a marketing strategy commonly employed by public relations firms, that involves placing a premeditated message in the "mouth of the media"
  • Third party reproduction refers to a process where another person provides sperm or eggs or where another woman provides her uterus so that a woman can have a child
  • Third party event refers the attending two parties then arriving at the next party. Should be tanked by this party event.
  • 3rd Party is the name of a 90's pop music group.
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