third-party insurance
These programs are created by third-party software developers and allow you to customize your phone.
We do not provide support for third-party applications that may be running on your PC.
We are totally independent, so we can issue impartial third-party advice.
In cases like this we usually ask a third-party reviewer to resolve the dispute.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unbiased or impartial
balanced
disinterest
disinterested
disinterestedly
disinterestedness
equitable
equitably
equity
impartial
impartiality
impartially
neutral
neutrally
non-aligned
non-alignment
non-intervention
objective
unbiased
unprejudiced

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Freedom to act

third-partyadjective[before noun] (IN POLITICS)

politics specialized
not belonging to either of the main parties in a two-party political system:
There may also be a third-party candidate running against her.
He hopes to establish a viable third-party alternative to the Democrats and Republicans.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Political movements & groups
alt-right
ANC
anti-Bolshevik
anti-Bolshevism
anti-capitalism
big tent
black bloc
Blairite
Blue Dog
left-winger
leftism
leftist
leftward
lefty
sectarian
sectarianism
segregationist
Sinn Fein
the awkward gangidiom
the SDLP

third party | American Dictionary

third party
noun[ C ]
us/ˈθɜrd ˈpɑr·ti/

third partynoun[C] (POLITICAL GROUP)

social studies
any political party (= organization to get people elected) that is not as big or as influential as the two main parties

third partynoun[C] (PERSON)

a person who is not one of the two main people involved in an argument or legal case

third party | Business English

third party
noun[ C,usually singular ]
ukus
LAW
a third person or organization less directly involved in an activity or in a legal case than the main people or organizations that are involved:
30% of the units that we sell are actually sold by third parties.
Shareholders may authorize a third party, such as a bank or employer, to make investments directly to their Fund accounts.
In road accident cases, the plaintiff can bring a third party in as a second defendant.
INSURANCE
in an insurance contract, a person who is not the insurance company or the insured person, but who will receive money if they suffer loss or damage caused by the insured person:
The policyholder is covered if they cause injury or damage to a third party.
third-party
adjective[ before noun ]
ukus
LAW
connected with a third person or organization less directly involved in an activity or in a legal case than the main people or organizations that are involved:
third-party commissions/proceedings/suppliersThere has been a higher concentration of sales in foreign locations that are subject to third-party commissions.
INSURANCE
connected with insurance that will pay money to a person who suffers loss or damage caused by the insured person:
third-party claims/insurance/liability
third-party cover/damage

Examples of third party

third party
Treating all the other 28 countries as a single thirdparty for any given dyad would be problematic for some reasons.
If the message is intercepted by a thirdparty, it cannot be deciphered.
In addition, structured thirdparty interviews were conducted, mainly in order to obtain information on cognitive and psychosocial functioning.
They assume some kind of institutional mismatch occurs in the legitimation process, thus giving the thirdparty its important role.
In it, he set out numerous cases where strike action and lockouts had struck very hard at a thirdparty, the individual shopkeeper.
Nonetheless, a thirdparty may actively seek to identify a user.
Why is the imposition of harm by a thirdparty special?
Going to court is a form of thirdparty settlement.
Since she is asking a question about the potential action of a thirdparty, she is not expressing her speech time intentions.
Similarly, the interpretation can be made by the user or by a thirdparty again usually a professional.
Such a conduct would include the buyer asserting his new entitlement and any thirdparty (including from now on the seller) respecting it.
A sender can subsequently attach a copy of its digital certificate, which has been issued by a trusted thirdparty, to any of its messages.
This is of significance in the medico-legal setting when thirdparty compensation for head injury has to be decided.
Each trial was evaluated independently by two individuals, and differences were resolved by either consensus or the independent evaluation of a thirdparty.
Cases of mild cognitive impairment could be missed, if the elderly persons do not admit cognitive impairment and no thirdparty information can be obtained.
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