multiparty

adjective

mul·​ti·​par·​ty ˌməl-tē-ˈpär-tē How to pronounce multiparty (audio)
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: of, relating to, or involving multiple and usually more than two parties
multiparty government
a multiparty lawsuit

Examples of multiparty in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Sweeping change took place across Africa in the 1960s, when countries won independence from their colonial rulers, and again at the dawn of multiparty democracy in the 1990s that followed decades of either single-party or military rule. Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024 India’s communist parties have worked within the country’s multiparty democratic structures since its independence in 1947 and have thus also remained relevant in the post-Soviet era. Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024 The audience filed in: a few dozen of the candidates’ personal guests, plus a handful of diehard fans of multiparty democracy. Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 Moreover, in those countries, multiparty democracy and peaceful transfers of power have worked: Poland’s October 2023 election, which brought the liberal centrist Donald Tusk to power after years of rule by the right-wing Law and Justice Party, is proof of that. Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024 When single-party rule was formally dismantled in 1992, Mr. Mwinyi declared that the switch to multiparty democracy mirrored similar global developments. Alan Cowell, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024 Modern Turkey became a multiparty democracy in the 1950s less than two decades after Ataturk’s death, in 1938, and his Kemalist followers on the left and right, many of them born in the Balkans or descendants of immigrants from Europe, perpetuated the idea of Turkey as a European entity. Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024 Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands have two things in common: multiparty systems and a young voter turnout of more than 75 percent in recent years versus our 50 percent in the 2020 presidential election. Gabriel Levin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024 Ever since, Beijing has viewed Taiwan as part of its territory, though the island remained defiantly self-governing and its government later transitioned from a nationalist military dictatorship to a vibrant, multiparty democracy. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of multiparty was in 1909

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“Multiparty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multiparty. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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