In plain English
The key idea is that the check comes from someone separate from the original source of the information. That independent person or organization confirms whether a statement or record is accurate.
In context
Here, "third-party verification" names a credential-check process in which someone outside the original source confirms that the credential information is accurate.
- Situation
- Requesting transcripts, certificates, credentials, verification, and graduation records
- What it communicates
- names a credential-check process carried out by an external organization.
Meaning limits
The term alone does not establish how the confirmation is done or what decision, if any, follows from it.
Examples
“The association requested third-party verification of the coach’s qualification rather than relying on the issuing academy’s own statement about it.”
“After two records gave different graduation dates, the hiring team sent the applicant’s credential details for third-party verification.”