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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.
- 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
- 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
- Just because the American people are disgusted with higher taxes, bigger government, left wing liberal give away policies and pacifist foreign policy attitudes, this idiot thinks the Tea Party activist is in someway trying to bring the country down. Clinton warns against violent anti-government attitude
- 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.
- To the left a small party was holding an entrenched position on rising ground. Times, Sunday Times
