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The correct spelling is party.
How to pronounce party
/ˈpɑ(ː)ɾi/
nounIPA: /ˈpɑ(ː)ɾi/
Say it like: Par-tee
The correct spelling is party. A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action. For example: "The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee."
Usage Examples
“The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.”
“The green party took 12% of the vote.”
“The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
- 2.A person.
- 3.A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
- 4.A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
- 5.A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
verb
- 1.To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
- 2.To take recreational drugs.
- 3.To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
- 4.To form a party (with).
adjective
- 1.(except in compounds) Divided; in part.
- 2.Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
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