multiparty

adjective

mul·​ti·​par·​ty ˌməl-tē-ˈpär-tē How to pronounce multiparty (audio)
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: of, relating to, or involving multiple and usually more than two parties
multiparty government
a multiparty lawsuit

Examples of multiparty in a Sentence

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Of all the countries in the region that caught the revolutionary bug, Tunisia was the only one that managed to build a multiparty democracy with separation of powers and freedom of expression, for a while becoming the poster child of successful democratization. Ian Bremmer, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024 However, banks are overcoming these challenges by using privacy-preserving techniques such as data anonymization and secure multiparty computation to access and analyze this data without exchanging or revealing any personal information. Jon Jacobson, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024 But, in a multiparty parliamentary system like Germany’s, the rifts and tensions are easier to discern. Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024 So going beyond, say, secret writing to public key encryption, and then to even fancier things like zero-knowledge proofs, multiparty secure computation, obfuscation. Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for multiparty 

Word History

First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of multiparty was in 1909

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“Multiparty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multiparty. Accessed 19 Dec. 2024.

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