party line
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.19 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A single telephone line which is shared by two or more households. Formerly common from the inception of telephony (1880s) through the mid-twentieth century.
noun
The official policy of a political party or other organization.
Example Sentences
- "In a country where the party line controls the climate debate to the extent that a general apathy infuses the broader public, Howey and Zhao are the sudden, fresh young faces of environmental activism."
- "On the evening of June 21, 1941, American Communists went to bed subject to one party line. At the sun set, Britain was fighting an imperialist war against Germany, about which the United States must remain neutral. American Communists awoke on June 22, 1941, to discover the party line abruptly changed. Hitler had invaded the Soviet Union. Now the war was a struggle between democracy and fascism, one the United States must immediately join."