party

Definitions

• (legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
• A person.
• (now) 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.
• (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
• A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
• (obsolete) A part or division.