multiparty

Involving several different political parties.

Adjective

  1. Involving several different political parties.
    • Lawyers from Tobruk and Benghazi claim to be running civilian committees, and have called for the restoration of the 1952 constitution, amended to uphold a multi-party republic. - 2011 February 25, “Building a new...

    Synonyms: multipartite

  2. Having multiple parties (involved persons).
    • a multiparty telephone call

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English party English multiparty From multi- + party.

Forms

multi-party

Related

multipartisan

Derived

multipartyism multipartyist