Third party
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Third party may refer to:
Politics
- Third party (politics), party other than one of the two dominant ones in a two-party political system
- Third party (Canada), in Canadian politics
- Third party (United States), in American politics
- Third parties in a two-party system in which two political parties dominate voting in nearly all elections at every level of government
Acting in third of three roles
- Third-party ownership in association football, the ownership of a player's economic rights by sources other than the player
Business and marketing
- Third-party access, policies that require owners of natural monopoly infrastructure facilities to grant access to those facilities to parties other than their own customers
- Third-party administrator, an organization that processes insurance claims or certain aspects of employee benefit plans for a separate entity
- Third-party beneficiary, person who may have the right to sue on a contract, despite not having originally been a party to the contract
- Third party insurance, liability insurance which covers third-party claims
- Third-party technique, marketing strategy commonly employed by public relations firms, that involves placing a premeditated message in the "mouth of the media"
- Third-party verification (TPV), process of getting an independent party to confirm that the customer is actually requesting a change or ordering a new service or product, such as the practice used to prevent Telephone slamming
- Third party Independent test organization
- Third-party inspection company
Computers
- Third-party developer, a hardware or software developer independent of the primary product or platform that the consumer is using
- Third-party software component, software which can be used in conjunction with some software or hardware but is not associated with either the manufacturer or the user
Law and society
- Third-party observations under the European Patent Convention, observations submitted by a person who is not formally party to the grant or opposition proceedings, where the observations relate to the patentability of an invention subject of a European patent application or, after grant, subject of a European patent
- Third-party reproduction, a process wherein a donor provides sperm, eggs, or the use of her uterus so that a woman can have a child
- Third-party source, a source of information independent of the first and second parties in a situation
As a proper name
- 3rd Party (1990s), American pop music group
- Third Party (album) (2010), by Blue Sky Black Death
- Third Party, British DJ duo
- The Third Party, a 2016 Filipino romantic comedy drama film
See also
- Third Party System (1850s-1890s), 3rd of 5 historical periods in American politics
- American Third Party (1950s), political party led by Henry B. Krajewski
- Third person (disambiguation)
- Party (disambiguation)
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