Party (disambiguation)

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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

• Party (law), a person or group of persons composing a single entity for the purposes of the law
• Political party, an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government
  • 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
  • Third party (politics), any minor party in any two-party system

• Party (role-playing games), a group of characters (often player characters) adventuring together in a role-playing game
• Wedding party, the bride, groom, bridesmaids, groomsmen and sometimes other participants in a wedding
• Architectural parti, the underlying idea behind a work of architecture.

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