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party line definition

party line

  1. a line marking the boundary between adjoining properties
  2. ☆ a single circuit connecting two or more telephone users with the exchange
  3. ☆ a political tenet regarded as a line, or boundary, beyond which a political party or its members are not supposed to go
  4. the line of policy followed by a political party, esp. a communist party

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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