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PARTY LINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A telephone line serving two or more subscribers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("party line" is a kind of...):
line; phone line; subscriber line; telephone circuit; telephone line (a telephone connection)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The policy of a political group
Example:
He won in a vote along party lines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("party line" is a kind of...):
policy (a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government)
