Party People Extra Examples Small Political I Friend's

• a dinner/tea/cocktail party
• i was at a birthday party for my friend's five-year-old daughter.
• to have/throw/give a party
• to hold/host a party

party

1. a social occasion, often in a person’s home, at which people eat, drink, talk, dance and enjoy themselves
• SEE ALSO bachelor party
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bachelor-party
• a dinner/tea/cocktail party
• I was at a birthday party for my friend's five-year-old daughter.
• to have/throw/give a party
• to hold/host a party
• Did you go to the party?
• party games

Extra Examples

• By now the party was in full swing.
• The main task faced by the host at a party is making people comfortable.
• I was at a party in London that night.
• It's a good snack for serving at parties.
• They were invited to an elegant garden party.
• We had a small party to celebrate.
• She attended a wedding anniversary party for her mother- and father-in-law.
• They host a Christmas party every year for all the neighbours.
• They went to a New Year's Eve party held at Planet Hollywood in New York City.
• We occasionally hold informal parties.
• She's planning a surprise party for her boyfriend.
• He loves throwing lavish parties.
• I'm organizing an engagement party for my sister.
• He gave a dinner party for some old friends.
• On moving in they threw a huge house-warming party.
• She turned up at her fiancé's bachelor party.
• The girls were having a slumber party.
• They attended the launch party for the new film.
• We had a farewell party for Michelle when she left the company.
• Are you going to Tom's leaving party?
• They met at a friend's wedding party.
• She danced on the table at her own retirement party.
• She is a hard-drinking, non-stop party girl.
• There was a real party atmosphere on the last day of term.
2. a political organization that you can vote for in elections and whose members have the same aims and ideas
• SEE ALSO all-party
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/all-party
• Do you belong to a political party?
• the ruling/opposition party
• the Democratic/Republican/Conservative/Labour Party
• the party leader/conference
• a party member/activist/official

Extra Examples

• From 1991 new political parties emerged to challenge the governing party.
• Three of Australia's four main political parties supported the change.
• It is unlikely that either of the two main parties will get enough votes to govern alone.
• He's a successful politician unaffiliated with either major party.
• He has been criticized from within his own party.
• How is that going to go down with the right wing of the party?
• a coalition of centrist and left-wing parties
• The incumbent party has won seven out of the last nine elections.
• The party fears losing its majority.
• The Democratic party now controls the Senate.
• She was selected as her party's candidate for mayor.
• She became leader of the party in 2016.
• This bitter dispute finally split the party.
• He called the vote in a disastrous attempt to unite the party.
• He founded his own party, the LPF.
• They formed a radical opposition party, the National Movement.
• members of the parliamentary party
• They are now the majority party in Parliament.
• They present themselves as the party of the working classes.
• They want to be taken seriously as a prospective party of government.
• He had strong links with the Communist Party.
• The Prime Minister was cheered by the party faithful.
• She continued to be loyal to the party leadership.
• He denied that he had ever been a Nazi party member.
• The cost of party membership is relatively high.
• The most important thing is to maintain party unity.
3. a group of people who are doing something together such as travelling or visiting somewhere
• SEE ALSO colour party
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/colour-party
• The school is taking a party of 40 children to France.
• The theatre gives a 10 per cent discount to parties of more than ten.
• a rescue/wedding/hunting party

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• The table was taken by a party of six.
• The total bill for our party of five was almost £300.
• A small party of four soldiers came into view.
• She arrived with a party of helpers.
• The ship hosted a number of visits, including parties of local schoolchildren.
• In 1863 Mr. Thomas Cook led his first party of tourists to Switzerland.
• A small party set out from the fort.
• Some of the party wanted to turn back.
• One of the men in our party volunteered to go for help.
• A guide travelled with our party.
• It was time for us to join rest of the coach party.
• The visiting party included city dignitaries.
• A landing party was sent ashore.
• The hunting party came across a bear in the forest.
• He landed a small scouting party on the island and named it Sri Lanka.
• The captain told the crew to prepare to receive a boarding party.
• They formed a raiding party to venture into enemy territory.
• The wedding party climbed into the carriages.
• A rescue party immediately set off by boat.
• Several members of the England cricket touring party were robbed outside the team hotel.
4. one of the people or groups of people involved in a legal agreement or argument
• SEE ALSO injured party
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/the-injured-party
• the guilty/innocent party
• The contract can be terminated by either party with three months' notice.
• The judge’s decision satisfied most of the parties concerned.

Extra Examples

• First we must notify all the interested parties.
• This agreement shall be binding upon both parties.
5. to be involved in an agreement or action
• to be party to a decision
• He refused to be a party to any violence.
6. to contribute something useful to a discussion, project, etc.
• What Hislop brought to the party was real commitment and energy.

Word Origin

• Middle English (denoting a body of people united in opposition to others, also in sense (1)): from Old French partie, based on Latin partiri ‘divide into parts’. Sense (2) dates from the early 18th cent.