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A party is a social gathering primarily for celebration and recreation.

Party may also refer to an individual person, or group of individuals:

• Party (pronoun), used to identify a grammatical person:
  • "First-party" pronoun, such as we
  • "Second-party" pronoun, such as you
  • "Third-party" pronoun, such as they

• one or more participants in the context of a legal, business, or political relationship:
  • First party, a principal in the relationship (referring to self) or the obvious dominant principal
  • Second party, the other principals in the relationship
  • Third party (disambiguation), some other person or entity with some involvement (many uses across many disciplines)

• Party (law), a person or group of persons composing a single entity for the purposes of the law

• a party in politics:
  • Political party, an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government
  • Third party (politics), any minor party in any two-party system
  • The Party (politics) can refer to a dominant political party in a country, often the only party (in a single party systems). For example, in reference to the Soviet Union, the Party means the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

• Wedding party, the bride, groom, bridesmaids, groomsmen and sometimes other participants in a wedding
• The members of an expedition, often armed. Sometimes synonymous with squad; e.g.:
  • Hunting party
  • Scouting party

Parti (a foreign spelling) may also refer to:

• Architectural parti, the underlying idea behind a work of architecture.
• a foreign political party - possibly also "Partia"
  • See articles beginning in Parti, usually foreign political parties.

Media

• Party (film), (1984) by Govind Nihalani.
• "Party", a 2007 episode of The Mighty Boosh
• Party (Nick Swardson album), a comedy album by Nick Swardson

Technology

• A party, in role-playing games, is a group of game characters working together for a common purpose, generally comprised of the participating player characters.
• Third-party developer, hardware or software developer not directly tied to the primary product that a consumer is using

in the video game industry:

• First-party developer, a division of a console manufacturer, who develops games for the company's video game console
• Second-party developer, a company that is tied to, and makes games specifically for, a console manufacturer
• Third-party developer, a company licensed by, but not directly tied to, a console manufacturer

See also

• The Party (disambiguation)
• Surprise party, a celebration that is not made known to one or more of the guests until it occurs

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