Party Definition–noun | 1. | a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party. | | 2. | a group gathered for a special purpose or task: a fishing party; a search party. | | 3. | a detachment, squad, or detail of troops assigned to perform some particular mission or service. | | 4. | a group of persons with common purposes or opinions who support one side of a dispute, question, debate, etc. | | 5. | 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. | | 6. | the system of taking sides on public or political questions or the like. | | 7. | attachment or devotion to one side or faction; partisanship: to put considerations of party first. | | 8. | Law. | a. | one of the litigants in a legal proceeding; a plaintiff or defendant in a suit. |
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| b. | a signatory to a legal instrument. | | c. | a person participating in or otherwise privy to a crime. | | 9. | a person or group that participates in some action, affair, plan, etc.; participant: He was a party to the merger deal. | | 10. | the person under consideration; a specific individual: Look at the party in the green velvet shorts. | | 11. | 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. | | 12. | a person participating in a telephone conversation: I have your party on the line. | | 13. | 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. | | 14. | 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. | –adjective | 15. | of or pertaining to a party or faction; partisan: party leaders. | | 16. | of or for a social gathering: her new party dress. | | 17. | being shared by or pertaining to two or more persons or things. | | 18. | Heraldry. (of an escutcheon) having the field divided into a number of parts, usually two; parted. | –verb (used without object) Informal. | 19. | to go to or give parties, esp. a series of parties. | | 20. | to enjoy oneself thoroughly and without restraint; indulge in pleasure. | | From DictionaryInvitation Definition–noun | 2. | the written or spoken form with which a person is invited. | | 3. | something offered as a suggestion: an invitation to consider a business merger. | | 4. | attraction or incentive; allurement. | | 5. | a provocation: The speech was an invitation to rebellion. | –adjective |
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