third-party

• 3d-party, 3rd-party

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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

      • 2025 February 27, “Not a Coder? With A.I., Just Having an Idea Can Be Enough.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 March 2025:

        Not all of my vibecoding experiments have been successful. I've been struggling for weeks to build an "inbox autopilot" tool capable of responding to my emails automatically, in my writing style. I've encountered roadblocks when trying to integrate A.I. work flows into apps like Google Photos and iOS Voice Memos, which aren't designed to play well with third-party add-ons.

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^[2]:

     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^[3]:

     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^[4]:

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

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