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party

(pɑːʳti )

Word forms: parties , partying , partied

1. countable noun B1

A party is a political organization whose members have similar aims and beliefs. Usually the organization tries to get its members elected to the government of a country.

...a member of the Labour Party.

...India's ruling party.

...opposition parties.

...her resignation as party leader.

2. countable noun A1

A party is a social event, often in someone's home, at which people enjoy themselves doing things such as eating, drinking, dancing, talking, or playing games.

The couple met at a party.

We threw a huge birthday party.

Most teenagers like to go to parties.

Synonyms: get-together [informal], celebration, do [informal], social

3. See also dinner party, garden party, hen party, stag party

4. verb

If you party, you enjoy yourself doing things such as going out to parties, drinking, dancing, and talking to people.

They come to eat and drink, to swim, to party. Sometimes they never go to bed. [VERB]

After a long evening of partying he looked tired. [VERB]

Synonyms: celebrate, have fun, have a good time, enjoy yourself

5. countable noun

A party of people is a group of people who are doing something together, for example travelling together.

They became separated from their party.

...a party of sightseers. [+ of]

...a research party of scientists.

6. See also search party, working party

7. countable noun

One of the people involved in a legal agreement or dispute can be referred to as a particular party. [law]

It has to be proved that they are the guilty party.

...he was the injured party.

...a court, the decision of which may not satisfy either party.

Synonyms: litigant, defendant, participant, contractor [law]

8. See also third party

9. be a party to sth/be party to sth phrase

Someone who is a party to or is party to an action or agreement is involved in it, and therefore partly responsible for it.

Crook had resigned his post rather than be party to such treachery.

Image of party

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Quotations:

A party is like a marriage ... making itself up while seeming to follow precedentJay McInerneyBrightness Falls

Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule: and both commonly succeed, and are rightH.L. Mencken

Idioms:

the life and soul of the party [British] or the life of the party

someone who is very lively and entertaining on social occasions, and is good at mixing with people

She was having a very enjoyable time and was clearly the life and soul of the party.

bring something to the party

to make a contribution to a particular activity or situation

Johnson asked, `What do they bring to the party?' `They bring a lot to the party,' Cohen replied, `principally $3 billion in capital.'

Collocations:

main party

Our main parties are all, quite rightly, signed up to opportunity for all.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

Neither of the two main parties looks on course to win a majority.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

Councillors from the three main parties all submitted complaints.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

party late

It was reported yesterday that police were initially contacted by a third party late last year.

Times, Sunday Times

Arguably he started at the back of the grid after making the party late.

Times, Sunday Times

My wild waterhole neighbours are throwing a party late into the night, with plenty of grunty guffaws.

Times, Sunday Times

She met up with the boxer four days running, partying late into the night with him and his entourage.

The Sun

When he first moved in there were a few people who were worried, thinking it would be all rock star parties late at night.

The Sun

party planner

You can also be a brilliant party planner, able to bring style to any event, on any budget.

The Sun

One party planner even imagines an event where guests enjoy dinner and discuss their stock portfolio.

Times, Sunday Times

Others more intimately involved in the arrangements faced a conundrum: how to plan a party for a party planner?

Times, Sunday Times

It felt as if a party planner had been feverishly hard at work.

Times, Sunday Times

You need to have the right attorney, the right accountant, the right party planner, the right dentist, the right shrink.

Times, Sunday Times

party politician

What he meant, perhaps, was that he had never been a tribal party politician.

The Times Literary Supplement

Worse, actually, he seems content to be another party politician.

Times, Sunday Times

His political career was that of a civil servant rather than a party politician.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

There will be a bigger number of independents, with 15.5% of the electorate shying away from party politicians.

Times, Sunday Times

They create a foundation for consensus that will absolve party politicians from blame for raising the private sector retirement age.

Times, Sunday Times

party primary

Both ran unopposed in the party primary elections.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Hurst polled 81,239 votes, or 16.4 percent, in the party primary.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

He won the party primary with 30.1% of the vote against three other candidates.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Undeclared voters -- those not registered with any party -- can vote in either party primary.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

He won a contested party primary and won again in the 2012 general election.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

party strategist

Step forward the party strategist who predicted this game-changer.

Times, Sunday Times

A senior party strategist said that the president had created 'an atmosphere of stagnation'.

Times, Sunday Times

Party strategists have spent excruciating amounts of time, effort and money on targeting specific pockets of voters.

Times, Sunday Times

Some party strategists believe the scandal will scare off big donors fearful his record will not withstand close scrutiny.

Times, Sunday Times

To others, such as his party strategists, it can cloud and clutter the message of why a health plan might be good for the public.

Times, Sunday Times

party supporter

A leaning party supporter shows more loyalty to the party than that of a weak party supporter.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

But she will not be able to guarantee that freedom — or safety — to her party supporters.

Times, Sunday Times

Party supporters who feel that way are very likely to withhold their votes in protest at the general election.

Times, Sunday Times

Those that have opened, often under threat from the ruling party supporters, have kept a skeleton staff.

Christianity Today

The party said it received swathes of texts, emails and phone calls from party supporters over the weekend.

Times, Sunday Times

party unity

Honouring the result of the referendum and maintaining party unity demanded it.

Times, Sunday Times

How long can this rare outbreak of party unity last?

The Sun

They pay all the costs of party unity but get no benefit.

Times, Sunday Times

Such a scenario bodes ill for party unity but from the chaos a plausible candidate could yet emerge.

Times, Sunday Times

Yet the parallels are striking (see panel, left) — above all, their obsession with party unity, with bridging a right-left divide as corrosive in the 1950s as in the 2010s.

Times,Sunday Times

populist party

Now he seems content performing populist party tricks rather than stretching and reinventing the form like the legions of imitators he has spawned.

Times, Sunday Times

Vox, a rightwing populist party, played the legion's anthem at a rally last year and was told to stop.

Times,Sunday Times

Its convincing win, after a campaign largely fair and free, gives the populist party, identified by its supporters' red shirts, the chance to form a government on its own.

Times, Sunday Times

When a populist party wins power, it sooner or later becomes the establishment.

Times, Sunday Times

He wants to create a large populist party that would one day rule the world, with himself as the leader.

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radical party

During his time as a federal councilor a fight broke out between the conservatives and a group of the radical party.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

The radicals (the radical party) had their gathering-places all around the country.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

In the manner of radical parties, schism followed.

Times, Sunday Times

This means that, even at a time of full employment, a booming economy and soaring tax revenues, radical parties are set to win more than a quarter of the vote.

Times, Sunday Times

Despite the emergence of numerous radical parties, the government was run by the major parties.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

responsible party

The responsible party pays the costs of assessment and restoration.

Houston Chronicle

The domestication of the sea bass has a host of nations and individuals who claim to be the responsible party.

Times, Sunday Times

By law, authorities must be able to identify a so-called 'directing mind', a responsible party senior enough to be considered as acting on behalf of the firm.

Times, Sunday Times

Four gave cautious and qualified permission to 'leak' some information in cases in which another responsible party could help, and even then, permission of the first party should be sought.

Christianity Today

If there are any changes since the last reporting, the responsible party must report it to the executive officer.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

right-wing party

The power struggle between left and right wing parties damages the economy but, on the other hand, consolidated its position in the country.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

After this the party's support declined as a proliferation of right wing parties siphoned off important segments of its traditional voter base.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

In these elections nationalist right wing parties obtained less than 1% of the votes; in the 1998 elections they obtained 3.26%.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

The party was denied free participation in the elections of 1999, but continued with its educational programmes, territorial expansion and popular activities against the right wing parties.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

The former prime minister said that the election could well be one 'in which a traditional left-wing party competes with a traditional right-wing party, with the traditional result'.

Times, Sunday Times

rival party

With the two houses each controlled by a rival party, the country's politics looks set to remain in gridlock.

The Sun

Rival party leaders rounded on what they regarded as an attempt by the prime minister to avoid taking part in any of the debates.

Times, Sunday Times

Voters like to know where they, and the rival party leaders, stand.

Times, Sunday Times

Setting up a rival party from scratch requires big personalities with big policies.

The Sun

Moderates are now the new rebels, wondering whether to stay and fight or make a break for it and set up a new rival party.

The Sun

ruling party

Prisoners in jail were told to vote for the ruling party.

Times, Sunday Times

Because the outcome was a clean sweep for the ruling party (just two seats went to the opposition), some international commentators wrote it off completely.

The Times Literary Supplement

Its proposals may remain only proposals, but they help the ruling party gauge public sentiment.

Times, Sunday Times

The ruling party won 143 seats, short of the 155 needed, but will nevertheless face a weakened opposition.

Times, Sunday Times

The headquarters of the ruling party were burnt.

Times, Sunday Times

split a party

Could this move split his party, not now but in the years to come?

Times, Sunday Times

Labour has been here before, a generation ago, and it split the party.

Times, Sunday Times

The case has split the party, which suspended him.

The Sun

He limps on only because of cabinet cowardice and the fear among backbenchers that a leadership contest now would split the party.

Times, Sunday Times

Her former deputy was worried her resignation would split the party, so she followed her natural inclination to stay on.

Times,Sunday Times

switch party

Some have even switched parties, but refuse to trigger by-elections they would lose.

The Sun

They are becoming willing to switch parties and feel no better off now than before the 1992 and 2010 economic downturns.

The Sun

He switched parties several times after that, and retired from politics in 2001.

Globe and Mail

The tug of their old political allegiance might prevent them from switching parties.

Globe and Mail

If he's now wondering about his future, it wouldn't be the first time he has switched parties.

Times, Sunday Times

throw a party

Speak to a tax adviser, sign up to online banking and find the time to throw a party to say goodbye.

Times, Sunday Times

I feel at peace — and determined to throw the party of a lifetime.

The Sun

Throw a party and then have dinner somewhere else.

Times, Sunday Times

Suggest networking groups and fun events, throw a party and invite your local friends, then get her working the room.

The Sun

You can throw a party, and nobody might come.

Times, Sunday Times

unite a party

The leadership to unite your party and build a strong team.

The Sun

Her popularity dropped rapidly as she struggled to unite the party and impose her authority on its unruly right.

Times,Sunday Times

The first minister will try to unite her party around a new 'soft' independence plan at its conference this weekend.

Times, Sunday Times

While this helped unite the party, squaring the circle in government won't be so easy.

Times,Sunday Times

When he got elected he said he wanted to unite the party and have debates.

Times, Sunday Times

wedding party

After helping the wedding party understand the meaning of what they are doing, it's time for the walk-through.

Christianity Today

Often talking about these deeper meanings has a profound effect on the wedding party.

Christianity Today

The bemused wedding party was led across the road where they waited, presuming they would be let back in.

The Sun

The honeymoon, apparently, was - with 10 of the wedding party in tow.

Times, Sunday Times

We met up at a family friend's silver wedding party a couple of months ago.

The Sun

Translations:

Chinese: 社交会, 组, 开庆祝宴会

Japanese: パーティー social gathering, 一行集まり, 楽しく遊ぶ

单词	party
释义	party (pɑːʳti ) Word forms: parties , partying , partied 1. countable noun B1 A party is a political organization whose members have similar aims and beliefs. Usually the organization tries to get its members elected to the government of a country. ...a member of the Labour Party. ...India's ruling party. ...opposition parties. ...her resignation as party leader. 2. countable noun A1 A party is a social event, often in someone's home, at which people enjoy themselves doing things such as eating, drinking, dancing, talking, or playing games. The couple met at a party. We threw a huge birthday party. Most teenagers like to go to parties. Synonyms: get-together [informal], celebration, do [informal], social 3. See also dinner party, garden party, hen party, stag party 4. verb If you party, you enjoy yourself doing things such as going out to parties, drinking, dancing, and talking to people. They come to eat and drink, to swim, to party. Sometimes they never go to bed. [VERB] After a long evening of partying he looked tired. [VERB] Synonyms: celebrate, have fun, have a good time, enjoy yourself 5. countable noun A party of people is a group of people who are doing something together, for example travelling together. They became separated from their party. ...a party of sightseers. [+ of] ...a research party of scientists. 6. See also search party, working party 7. countable noun One of the people involved in a legal agreement or dispute can be referred to as a particular party. [law] It has to be proved that they are the guilty party. ...he was the injured party. ...a court, the decision of which may not satisfy either party. Synonyms: litigant, defendant, participant, contractor [law] 8. See also third party 9. be a party to sth/be party to sth phrase Someone who is a party to or is party to an action or agreement is involved in it, and therefore partly responsible for it. Crook had resigned his post rather than be party to such treachery. Image of party Shutterstock Quotations: A party is like a marriage ... making itself up while seeming to follow precedentJay McInerneyBrightness Falls Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule: and both commonly succeed, and are rightH.L. Mencken Idioms: the life and soul of the party [British] or the life of the party someone who is very lively and entertaining on social occasions, and is good at mixing with people She was having a very enjoyable time and was clearly the life and soul of the party. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers bring something to the party to make a contribution to a particular activity or situation Johnson asked, `What do they bring to the party?' `They bring a lot to the party,' Cohen replied, `principally $3 billion in capital.' Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: main party Our main parties are all, quite rightly, signed up to opportunity for all. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Neither of the two main parties looks on course to win a majority. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Councillors from the three main parties all submitted complaints. Times, Sunday Times (2013) party late It was reported yesterday that police were initially contacted by a third party late last year. Times, Sunday Times Arguably he started at the back of the grid after making the party late. Times, Sunday Times My wild waterhole neighbours are throwing a party late into the night, with plenty of grunty guffaws. Times, Sunday Times She met up with the boxer four days running, partying late into the night with him and his entourage. The Sun When he first moved in there were a few people who were worried, thinking it would be all rock star parties late at night. The Sun party planner You can also be a brilliant party planner, able to bring style to any event, on any budget. The Sun One party planner even imagines an event where guests enjoy dinner and discuss their stock portfolio. Times, Sunday Times Others more intimately involved in the arrangements faced a conundrum: how to plan a party for a party planner? Times, Sunday Times It felt as if a party planner had been feverishly hard at work. Times, Sunday Times You need to have the right attorney, the right accountant, the right party planner, the right dentist, the right shrink. Times, Sunday Times party politician What he meant, perhaps, was that he had never been a tribal party politician. The Times Literary Supplement Worse, actually, he seems content to be another party politician. Times, Sunday Times His political career was that of a civil servant rather than a party politician. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There will be a bigger number of independents, with 15.5% of the electorate shying away from party politicians. Times, Sunday Times They create a foundation for consensus that will absolve party politicians from blame for raising the private sector retirement age. Times, Sunday Times party primary Both ran unopposed in the party primary elections. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Hurst polled 81,239 votes, or 16.4 percent, in the party primary. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He won the party primary with 30.1% of the vote against three other candidates. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Undeclared voters -- those not registered with any party -- can vote in either party primary. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He won a contested party primary and won again in the 2012 general election. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 party strategist Step forward the party strategist who predicted this game-changer. Times, Sunday Times A senior party strategist said that the president had created 'an atmosphere of stagnation'. Times, Sunday Times Party strategists have spent excruciating amounts of time, effort and money on targeting specific pockets of voters. Times, Sunday Times Some party strategists believe the scandal will scare off big donors fearful his record will not withstand close scrutiny. Times, Sunday Times To others, such as his party strategists, it can cloud and clutter the message of why a health plan might be good for the public. Times, Sunday Times party supporter A leaning party supporter shows more loyalty to the party than that of a weak party supporter. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But she will not be able to guarantee that freedom — or safety — to her party supporters. Times, Sunday Times Party supporters who feel that way are very likely to withhold their votes in protest at the general election. Times, Sunday Times Those that have opened, often under threat from the ruling party supporters, have kept a skeleton staff. Christianity Today The party said it received swathes of texts, emails and phone calls from party supporters over the weekend. Times, Sunday Times party unity Honouring the result of the referendum and maintaining party unity demanded it. Times, Sunday Times How long can this rare outbreak of party unity last? The Sun They pay all the costs of party unity but get no benefit. Times, Sunday Times Such a scenario bodes ill for party unity but from the chaos a plausible candidate could yet emerge. Times, Sunday Times Yet the parallels are striking (see panel, left) — above all, their obsession with party unity, with bridging a right-left divide as corrosive in the 1950s as in the 2010s. Times,Sunday Times populist party Now he seems content performing populist party tricks rather than stretching and reinventing the form like the legions of imitators he has spawned. Times, Sunday Times Vox, a rightwing populist party, played the legion's anthem at a rally last year and was told to stop. Times,Sunday Times Its convincing win, after a campaign largely fair and free, gives the populist party, identified by its supporters' red shirts, the chance to form a government on its own. Times, Sunday Times When a populist party wins power, it sooner or later becomes the establishment. Times, Sunday Times He wants to create a large populist party that would one day rule the world, with himself as the leader. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 radical party During his time as a federal councilor a fight broke out between the conservatives and a group of the radical party. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The radicals (the radical party) had their gathering-places all around the country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the manner of radical parties, schism followed. Times, Sunday Times This means that, even at a time of full employment, a booming economy and soaring tax revenues, radical parties are set to win more than a quarter of the vote. Times, Sunday Times Despite the emergence of numerous radical parties, the government was run by the major parties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 responsible party The responsible party pays the costs of assessment and restoration. Houston Chronicle The domestication of the sea bass has a host of nations and individuals who claim to be the responsible party. Times, Sunday Times By law, authorities must be able to identify a so-called 'directing mind', a responsible party senior enough to be considered as acting on behalf of the firm. Times, Sunday Times Four gave cautious and qualified permission to 'leak' some information in cases in which another responsible party could help, and even then, permission of the first party should be sought. Christianity Today If there are any changes since the last reporting, the responsible party must report it to the executive officer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 right-wing party The power struggle between left and right wing parties damages the economy but, on the other hand, consolidated its position in the country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After this the party's support declined as a proliferation of right wing parties siphoned off important segments of its traditional voter base. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In these elections nationalist right wing parties obtained less than 1% of the votes; in the 1998 elections they obtained 3.26%. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The party was denied free participation in the elections of 1999, but continued with its educational programmes, territorial expansion and popular activities against the right wing parties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The former prime minister said that the election could well be one 'in which a traditional left-wing party competes with a traditional right-wing party, with the traditional result'. Times, Sunday Times rival party With the two houses each controlled by a rival party, the country's politics looks set to remain in gridlock. The Sun Rival party leaders rounded on what they regarded as an attempt by the prime minister to avoid taking part in any of the debates. Times, Sunday Times Voters like to know where they, and the rival party leaders, stand. Times, Sunday Times Setting up a rival party from scratch requires big personalities with big policies. The Sun Moderates are now the new rebels, wondering whether to stay and fight or make a break for it and set up a new rival party. The Sun ruling party Prisoners in jail were told to vote for the ruling party. Times, Sunday Times Because the outcome was a clean sweep for the ruling party (just two seats went to the opposition), some international commentators wrote it off completely. The Times Literary Supplement Its proposals may remain only proposals, but they help the ruling party gauge public sentiment. Times, Sunday Times The ruling party won 143 seats, short of the 155 needed, but will nevertheless face a weakened opposition. Times, Sunday Times The headquarters of the ruling party were burnt. Times, Sunday Times split a party Could this move split his party, not now but in the years to come? Times, Sunday Times Labour has been here before, a generation ago, and it split the party. Times, Sunday Times The case has split the party, which suspended him. The Sun He limps on only because of cabinet cowardice and the fear among backbenchers that a leadership contest now would split the party. Times, Sunday Times Her former deputy was worried her resignation would split the party, so she followed her natural inclination to stay on. Times,Sunday Times switch party Some have even switched parties, but refuse to trigger by-elections they would lose. The Sun They are becoming willing to switch parties and feel no better off now than before the 1992 and 2010 economic downturns. The Sun He switched parties several times after that, and retired from politics in 2001. Globe and Mail The tug of their old political allegiance might prevent them from switching parties. Globe and Mail If he's now wondering about his future, it wouldn't be the first time he has switched parties. Times, Sunday Times throw a party Speak to a tax adviser, sign up to online banking and find the time to throw a party to say goodbye. Times, Sunday Times I feel at peace — and determined to throw the party of a lifetime. The Sun Throw a party and then have dinner somewhere else. Times, Sunday Times Suggest networking groups and fun events, throw a party and invite your local friends, then get her working the room. The Sun You can throw a party, and nobody might come. Times, Sunday Times unite a party The leadership to unite your party and build a strong team. The Sun Her popularity dropped rapidly as she struggled to unite the party and impose her authority on its unruly right. Times,Sunday Times The first minister will try to unite her party around a new 'soft' independence plan at its conference this weekend. Times, Sunday Times While this helped unite the party, squaring the circle in government won't be so easy. Times,Sunday Times When he got elected he said he wanted to unite the party and have debates. Times, Sunday Times wedding party After helping the wedding party understand the meaning of what they are doing, it's time for the walk-through. Christianity Today Often talking about these deeper meanings has a profound effect on the wedding party. Christianity Today The bemused wedding party was led across the road where they waited, presuming they would be let back in. The Sun The honeymoon, apparently, was - with 10 of the wedding party in tow. Times, Sunday Times We met up at a family friend's silver wedding party a couple of months ago. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 社交会, 组, 开庆祝宴会 Japanese: パーティー social gathering, 一行集まり, 楽しく遊ぶ
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