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party noun [C] (SOCIAL GATHERING)
party noun [C] (POLITICAL GROUP)
party noun [C] (PARTICULAR GROUP)
party noun [C] (ONE INVOLVED)
party verb [I] (SOCIAL GATHERING)
(Definition of party from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of party
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The nature and magnitude of the problem-determined through a systematic risk assessment process-needs to be determined and openly communicated to all relevant parties.
There were certain reform policies that all progressive parties could agree upon.
Only interested parties who have a large material stake in it need to pretend that it is one indivisible entity.
Both the problems and the proposed solutions of the parties were addressed to specific, practical needs of the moment.
Attached parties are joined at particular points, which include the face and voice.
The review should be conducted fairly for all relevant parties.
The basic assumption being made in this study is that parties have a major rôle to play in democratic governance.
The process is, however, self-destructive to the parties locked in dispute.
To some degree the impartiality has depended on there being a large measure of policy agreement and continuity between the parties in government.
With 36 per cent of the manual workers' vote in 1987 the party's share of the working-class vote was the highest for any post-war election.
In addition to generating a mistrust of politics and political parties, this had another effect- the rise of the bureaucrat.
What to do with parties once they have lost their principles and therefore their respectability?
Political parties and democracy: the core of the political problem is always the same.
Competition between the parties was, however, somewhat less than in previous years.
Have both the parties acted in good faith?
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Collocations with party
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However halting, the emergence of politically powerful unions dramatically affected party politics and generated new questions about political finance.
The aggrieved party subsequently filed the case twice more at the high court.
When my constituents complain about an all-night party, it is perceived as a complaint on racial grounds rather than on noise grounds, and frequently it is not.
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