thirdpartyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• 3rd party, 3d party

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名詞

third party (plural third parties)

1. (business, commerce) Someone not directly involved in a transaction; an entity beyond the seller (first party) and customer (second party).

   A seller may employ a third party to perform specific services to augment the value of a product, such as packing and distribution.

2. (law) Someone only incidentally or tangentially connected to an incident or dispute; someone other than the principals; a bystander or independent witness.
3. (politics, chiefly US) A political party in opposition to the main parties in a two-party system.
   • 2010, Duncan Watts, Dictionary of American Government and Politics, →ISBN, page 177:

     Those who belong to the Libertarian Party serve a much larger pro-liberty community and have the specific mission of electing libertarians to public office. They traditionally billed themselves as 'America's largest third party'.

4. A person or party not directly involved with an arrangement, in contrast to active parties, characteristically the first party (producer) and second party (consumer).

派生語

• third-party (adjective)
• third-party (verb)

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参考

• two-party system
• three-party system
• third-party

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形容詞

third-party (not comparable)

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

      Coordinate terms: third source, third-source

      a third-party video game; a third-party character; third-party hardware

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動詞

third-party (third-person singular simple present third-parties, present participle third-partying, simple past and past participle third-partied)

1. (video games) To intervene in a fight between two players or teams, often allowing one to easily defeat both (sometimes seen as unfair).
   • 2022 February 12, Aakrit Sharma, “8 things Fortnite pros do during a 3rd party situation (& you should too)”, in Sportskeeda‎:

     A very common mistake that Fortnite players make is being too exposed during their fights. The first step is to acknowledge that they can get third-partied.

   • 2022 April 27, Alex Garton, “Aceu claims Seer is actually "meta" in Apex Legends for third-partying”, in Dexerto‎:

     While the majority of players have given up with Seer, there are a select few who believe he still has a place in the meta. One of them is aceu, who recently explained on stream why Seer is still a strong pick due to his ability to "third-party" opponents.

   • 2022 June 21, Josh Brown, Joseph Yaden, “Call of Duty: Warzone tips and tricks to win the war”, in Digital Trends‎:

     Not only that, but you can also gauge the whereabouts of their target, making it easier to third-party them.

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