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first-party

first-party adjective: of or relating to someone (a first party) directly involved in a given transaction, such as a buyer or seller.

Adjective

first-party (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to someone (a first party) directly involved in a given transaction, such as a buyer or seller.
  2. Of or relating to the plaintiff in a lawsuit.
  3. (hardware) Of products, created or published by the company responsible for the platform on which it is released (or its internal developers), as opposed to third-party.
    • a first-party video game; a first-party character; first-party hardware

Forms of first-party

alternative form1st-party

Phrases with first-party

Questions about first-party

What does first-party mean?
First-party means of or relating to someone (a first party) directly involved in a given transaction, such as a buyer or seller.
What part of speech is first-party?
First-party is an adjective.

Words near first-party in the dictionary

  1. first-order logics
  2. first-order question
  3. first-order questions
  4. first-order spectra
  5. first-order spectrum
  6. first-party
  7. first-party cookie
  8. first-party cookies
  9. first-party logistics
  10. first-passage time
  11. first-passage times

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