Word Finder - party

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A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.

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The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.

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A person.

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A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.

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A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.

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The green party took 12% of the vote.

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A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.

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The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.

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A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.

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A part or division.

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To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.

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We partied until the early hours.

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To take recreational drugs.

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To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.

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To form a party (with).

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If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.

So the party was actually for him, not both of them.

According to the invitation, the party will be held in the main entrance near the Christmas tree.

Party time is over.

My party invitation must have been lost in the mail.

She was invited to the party.

In fact, things were going so well that she actually accepted an invitation to a valentine's party at Roxanne's house.

We have just now met for the first time… I'm glad you are enjoying the party.

Hannah held one of the lanterns donated to their exiled party by the Sanctuary.

Amid backslapping and handshaking, the station assumed a party atmosphere for much of the afternoon.

You don't think I'd miss my favorite niece's birthday party do you?

Yes. I was surprised when he invited me to this party.

Oh, I was supposed to tell you about a party.

Riley's comments were simple but moving and made Dean won­der if he were the eulogized party, who would speak so kindly of him—or, for that matter, even attend the memorial.

Jonathan continued, We called Atherton's partner, your friend Ethel Rosewater—ran her down at a house party in the Hamptons.

One thing was for certain; this group would have one whoop-de-do of a party when the week was over.

You worked for the contrac­tor who built the World Wide office building in Scranton so you were at the opening dedication party there.

Tonight her parents were throwing her a twenty-fifth birthday party.

Several cars were already parked beside the walkway, though the party didn't officially start until seven thirty.

Only if you agree to stay for the dinner party.

From among all these parties, just at the time Prince Andrew reached the army, another, a ninth party, was being formed and was beginning to raise its voice.

The Rostov party spent the night at Mytishchi, fourteen miles from Moscow.

I dive off a building, and now I'm having a tea party?

You couldn't wait until this evening at the after party.

They were early for an after party, but he wasn't concerned.

The party was going already when they pulled up.

It didn't help that the women at the after party all looked like Toni and all the men like Gerry.

The same horse you invited to my dinner party last night?

You've never been to an after party before.

The duke of Dorset's reappointment to the lord-lieutenancy in 1751, with his son Lord George Sackville as secretary of state for Ireland, strengthened the primate's position and enabled him to triumph over the popular party on the constitutional question as to the right of the Irish House of Commons to dispose of surplus Irish revenue, which the government maintained was the property of the Crown.

In Congress he joined the radical wing of the Republican party, advocated the confiscation of Confederate property, approved and defended the Wade-Davis manifesto denouncing the tameness of Lincoln, and was soon recognized as a hard worker and ready speaker.

The Convention refused, and the anti-revolutionary party, encouraged by this refusal, took action.

He soon became a prominent member of the national or Calixtine party, and after the death of Ptacek of Pirkstein its leader.

He unsuccessfully contested Blackburn in 1900 and Wakefield in 1902, and in 1903 he became chairman of the Independent Labour party.

Rivadavia resigned, and Vicente Lopez, a Federalist, was elected to succeed him, but was speedily displaced by Manuel Dorrego (1827), another representative of the same party.

It was evident that the president intended to use all the influence which the party in power could exercise, to secure the return of General Julio Roca, who had distinguished himself in 1878 by a successful campaign against the warlike Indian tribes bordering on the Andes.

His partisans, however, found themselves confronted by a compact provincial party, who proposed to put forward the other strong man of the republic, General Roca, to oppose him.

This system, however, which is opposed by a powerful party, I has at various times undergone modifications.

He soon, however, returned to Bulgaria, owing to the success of the counterrevolution led by Stamboloff, which overthrew the provisional government set up by the Russian party at Sofia.

Owing to the opposition of the clerical party, it was speedily withdrawn.

Thereupon the Athenians concerted a plot with Nicodromus, the leader of the democratic party in the island, for the betrayal of Aegina.

The story of Nicodromus, while it proves the existence of a democratic party, suggests, at the same time, that it could count upon little support.; (2) Modern.

His ancestor, Richard Seymour, a Protestant Episcopal ` clergyman, was an early settler at Hartford, Connecticut, and his father, Henry Seymour, who removed from Connecticut to New York, was prominent in the Democratic party in the state, being a member of the "Albany Regency" and serving as state senator in1816-1819and in 1822, and as canal commissioner in 1819-1831.

The name of Feuillants, as a party designation, survived the club.

Pelsaert was wrecked on Houtman's Abrolhos; his crew mutinied, and he and his party suffered greatly from want of water.

Towards the close of the year 1696 this expedition reached the island of Rottnest, which was thoroughly explored, and early the following year a landing party discovered and named the Swan river.

The leading men of the party were Mr Robert O'Hara Burke, an officer of police, and Mr William John Wills, of the Melbourne observatory.

Leaving the main body of his party at Menindie on the Darling under a man named Wright, Burke, with seven men, five horses and sixteen camels, pushed on for Cooper's Creek, the understanding being that Wright should follow him in easy stages to the depot proposed to be there established.

Wright frittered away his time in the district beyond the Darling and did not attempt to follow the party to Cooper's Creek, and Burke, tired of waiting, determined to push on.

Howitt's party, sent on purpose to find and relieve that of Burke.

Forrest and his party safely crossed the entire extent of Western Australia, and entering South Australia struck the overland telegraph line at Peake station, and, after resting, journeyed south to Adelaide.