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UK
/pˈɑːti/
]
[ US /ˈpɑɹti/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑɹti/ ]
VERB
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have or participate in a party
The students were partying all night before the exam
NOUN
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an organization to gain political power
in 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level -
an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment
he planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day -
a group of people gathered together for pleasure
she joined the party after dinner -
a band of people associated temporarily in some activity
they organized a party to search for food
the company of cooks walked into the kitchen -
a person involved in legal proceedings
the party of the first part
How To Use party In A Sentence
- The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
- At election time the party needs a lot of voluntary helpers.
- The security police quickly squelched an extremely rare public demonstration demanding political reform on Monday, the 41st anniversary of the Baath Party's seizure of power here.
- Jim Devine said the £2326 of "joinery" was for storing personal and party political material in a pub cellar he was renting. Archive 2009-06-01
- So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
- Croi from time immemorial had been renowned for its devout and strict observance of papistic rites and ceremonies; the Counts of Nassau had gone over to the new sect -- sufficient reasons why Philip of Croi, Duke of Arschot, should prefer a party which placed him the most decidedly in opposition to the Prince of Orange. History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02
- Perhaps it comes straight out of that party line dictionary that was written in a smoke-filled room in Sevastapol Street by the same faceless Provo apparatchik who a few years back advocated the practically endless use of the term 'securocrat'. Archive 2009-01-01
- It also emerged on Tuesday that actress Sienna Miller had obtained a court ruling ordering phone operator Vodafone to disclose data relating to other users - so-called third party disclosure.
- Although the strategy was flawed by its excessive voluntarism, it did force the party to modernize itself.
- John Kerry of Massachusetts will accept the party's presidential nomination.