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

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

A person.

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

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

Example: The green party took 12% of the vote.

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

Example: We partied until the early hours.

To take recreational drugs.

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

To form a party (with).

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

(except in compounds) Divided; in part.

Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.

Example: an escutcheon party per pale