…a social gathering of invited guests, typically involving eating, drinking, and entertainment…
…a social gathering in the afternoon at which tea, cakes, and other light refreshments are served…
…a party held after another event, especially a concert or another party…
…a pan-Arab socialist party founded in Syria in 1943. Different factions of the Baath Party hold power in Syria and formerly held power in Iraq…
…a party for all the residents of a block or neighbourhood, usually held outdoors…
…a social event at which guests receive Botox injections from a doctor and mingle with each other for mutual support…
…a party, especially in a nightclub, at which guests dance and play in foam or soap suds…
…a party at which the guests stay at a house overnight or for a few days…
…a regular social gathering of women in which each member contributes money to a central pool and lots are drawn to decide which member will get the entire sum…
…a political party formed to represent the interests of ordinary working people…
…a boat available for renting by a group of people who want to go fishing…
…a policy, or the policies collectively, officially adopted by a political party…
…an electoral system of proportional representation in which people vote for a party rather than a candidate and seats are filled from lists of candidates according to each party’s share of the vote…
…a poem, song, or trick regularly performed by someone in order to entertain others…
…a sales strategy involving the demonstration of goods at parties in people’s homes…
…an instance of indulging in self-pity or eliciting pity from other people…
…a party held to raise money to pay rent by charging guests for attendance…
…a person or group besides the two primarily involved in a situation, especially a dispute…
…a party held to celebrate when the shooting of a film has been completed…
…a deed between a shipowner and a trader for the hire of a ship and the delivery of cargo…
…a political party supporting agricultural rather than manufacturing interests…
…a group of soldiers detailed to fire the salute at a military funeral…
…a left-of-centre political party formed to represent the interests of ordinary working people, in particular a major British party that since the Second World War has been in power 1945–51, 1964–70, 1974-9, and 1997–2010. Arising from the trade union movement at the end of the 19th century, it replaced the Liberals as the country’s second party after the First World War…
…a political party advocating liberal policies, in particular a British party that emerged in the 1860s from the old Whig Party and until the First World War was one of the two major parties in Britain. In 1988 the party regrouped with elements of the Social Democratic Party to form the Social and Liberal Democrats, now known as the Liberal Democrats; a small Liberal Party still exists…
…a very gregarious and outgoing person who enjoys parties and similar social activities…
…a device used as an amusement at parties, which explodes when a string is pulled, ejecting thin paper streamers…
…a group of people organized to look for someone or something that is lost…
…relating to or denoting a system of government where only one political party is permitted…
…a party for teenagers, typically girls, in which all the guests stay the night at the house where the party is held…
…a committee or group appointed to study and report on a particular question and make recommendations based on its findings…
…a party given for a man (or woman) about to get married, typically attended by men (or women) only…
…an Australian political party established in 1914 (as the Country Party) to represent agricultural and rural interests…
…a political party that held power in South Africa from 1948 until the country’s first democratic elections in 1994. Formed in 1914 as an Afrikaner party, it favoured racial segregation and instituted apartheid…
