partie

Noun

party (plural parties)

1. A person or group of people constituting one side in a legal proceeding, such as in a legal action or a contract.
   • The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.
2. (dated, humorous, slang, vulgar) A person; an individual.
   • He is a queer party.
   1. (dated, humorous, slang, vulgar) With to: someone who takes part in an action or affair; an accessory.
      • I can't possibly be (a) party to that kind of reckless behaviour.
3. (archaic, broadly) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest, etc., or united in maintaining a cause, policy, or opinion in opposition to others; a faction.
   • A mile back in the forest the tribe had heard the fierce challenge of the gorilla, and, as was his custom when any danger threatened, Kerchak called his people together, partly for mutual protection against a common enemy, since this gorilla might be but one of a party of several, and also to see...1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert]...
   1. (archaic, broadly) A political group considered as a formal whole, usually organized on a national basis, which contests elections and aims to form or take part in a government; a political party.
      • The green party took 12% of the vote.
   2. (archaic, broadly) The Communist Party, especially as the sole political party of a communist state.

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