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Third party   /θərd pˈɑrti/   Listen
Third party

noun
1.
Someone other than the principals who are involved in a transaction.
2.
A political party organized in opposition to the major parties in a two-party system.





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"Third party" Quotes from Famous Books



... to discuss that boy and his future movements, Miss Parker," he sighed presently. "I might compromise a third party. In the event of a show-down I do not wish to be forced under oath to tell what I know—or suspect. However, I am in a position to assure you that Oriental activities on this ranch have absolutely ceased. Mr. Okada has been solemnly assured that, in dealing ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
... him as an evil-dispositioned fellow, who deserved the utmost penalty of the law, and he had fallen in with their ideas, and had taken a kind of grim pleasure in doing so. It was a strange business altogether. For the moment he seemed to be a kind of third party considering a curious phenomenon. He seemed to have no direct connection with it at all. But as he remembered after events, when he called to mind the fact that he fought Paul at the election and failed to condemn those who made use of slanderous gossip, then he was more than ...
— The Day of Judgment • Joseph Hocking
... situation at present would, we believe, be a very hopeful one. It is impossible not to see that the existing parties are undergoing a disintegration which was inevitable from several causes, and which on one side at least would be far more rapid if a third party stood ready to profit by it. One cause of this disintegration is the natural tendency to decay of organizations that have lost their raison d'etre—that have ceased to embody any vital principle and consequently to appeal to any strong and general ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various
... it looks like a last resort. It would look as though, after having been kicked out of both parties, I had gone into the third party out of revenge." ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland
... paid no attention to what was said by this mysterious third party. Ruth, coming farther into the room, found that it was large and pleasant. There was a comfortable look about it all. The supper table was set and the door was opened into the warm kitchen, from which delicious odors of tea and toast ...
— Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill • Alice B. Emerson


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