tiers

• Hyphenation: tiers

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tiers

1. plural of tier

tiers

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tier

• Istre, Reist, Siret, Sirte, iters, reist, resit, rites, tires, tries

tiers c

1. indefinite genitive singular of tier

Inherited from Old French tiers, terce, tierz, tierce, from Latin tertius.

• IPA^(key): /tjɛʁ/

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tiers (feminine tierce, masculine plural tiers, feminine plural tierces)

1. (dated) third
2. third-party

• (third): troisième

• tiers-monde

tiers m (plural tiers)

1. a third (one of three equal parts)
2. a third-party (an outsider of a group)

• “tiers”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• rîtes, tires, tirés, tries, triés

• terce
• tierz
• tierce (all attested with both masculine and feminine nouns)

From Latin tertius.

tiers m (occasionally used with feminine nouns)

1. third (3rd)