a member of the National Socialist German Workers' party of Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler, seized political control of the country, suppressing all opposition and establishing a dictatorship over all cultural, economic, and political activities of the people, and promulgated belief in the supremacy of Hitler as Führer, aggressive anti-Semitism, the natural supremacy of the German people, and the establishment of Germany by superior force as a dominant world power. The party was officially abolished in 1945 at the conclusion of World War II.
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(often lowercase) a person elsewhere who holds similar views.
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Sometimes Offensive. (often lowercase) a person who is fanatically dedicated to or seeks to control a specified activity, practice, etc.: a j
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azz nazi who disdains other forms of music; tobacco nazis trying to ban smoking.
a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
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a group gathered for a special purpose or task: a fishing party; a search party.
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a detachment, squad, or detail of troops assigned to perform some particular mission or service.
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a group of persons with common purposes or opinions who support one side of a dispute, question, debate, etc.
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a group of persons with common political opinions and purposes organized for gaining political influence and governmental control and for directing government policy: the Republican party; the Democratic party.
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the system of taking sides on public or political questions or the like.
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attachment or devotion to one side or faction; partisanship: to put considerations of party first.
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Law.
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one of the litigants in a legal proceeding; a plaintiff or defendant in a suit.<
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a signatory to a legal instrument.
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a person participating in or otherwise privy to a crime.
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a person or group that participates in some action, affair, plan, etc.; participant: He was a party to the merger deal.
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the person under consideration; a specific individual: Look at the party in the green velvet shorts.
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a person or, usually, two or more persons together patronizing a restaurant, attending a social or cultural function, etc.: The headwaiter asked how many were in our party; a party of 12 French physicists touring the labs; a party of one at the small table.
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a person participating in a telephone conversation: I have your party on the line.
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any occasion or activity likened to a social party, as specified; session: The couple in the next apartment are having their usual dish-throwing party.
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an advantageous or pleasurable situation or combination of circumstances of some duration and often of questionable character; period of content, license, exemption, etc.: The police broke in and suddenly the party was over for the nation's most notorious gunman.
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of or pertaining to a party or faction; partisan: party leaders.
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of or for a social gathering: her new party dress.
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being shared by or pertaining to two or more persons or things.
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Heraldry. (of an escutcheon) having the field divided into a number of parts, usually two; parted.
–verb (used without object) Informal.
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to go to or give parties, esp. a series of parties.
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to enjoy oneself thoroughly and without restraint; indulge in pleasure.
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