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3rd-party

3rd-party is the alternative form of third-party.

Meaning of third-party

Adjective

third-party (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a third party.
    1. (hardware) Of products, created or published by an independent publisher or manufacturer or its internal development teams, as opposed to first-party and second-party.
      • a third-party video game; a third-party character; third-party hardware

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Questions about 3rd-party

What is 3rd-party the alternative form of?
3rd-party is the alternative form of third-party.

Words near 3rd-party in the dictionary

  1. 3rd person
  2. 3rd Reich
  3. 3rd wheel
  4. 3rd wheels
  5. 3rd world
  6. 3rd-party
  7. 3rded
  8. 3rding
  9. 3rdly
  10. 3rds
  11. 3RR

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 3rd-party (page history and authors); third-party (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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