Communist Party
- noun
- /ˈkɒmjʊnɪst ˈpɑːrti/
- Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?
- Chinese Communist Party
- Communist Party (CCP)
- secretary of the Communist Party
And that's exactly what the CCP, the Communist Party is afraid of.
- And that's exactly what the CCP, the Communist Party is afraid of.
- So essentially, that's what modern day Chinese Communist Party actually is.
- I mean, does anyone really think the Communist Party of China minds about separating families?
- He was a communist type, but when it came to the French Communist Party he was wary.
- So every department on campus has Communist Party committee and academic Dean.
- That's the daily daily newspaper of the French Communist Party.
- He makes Stalin the general secretary of the Communist Party.
Examples
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The Chinese people's tolerance for the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party has reached an end.
Academic text (1990) -
The people no longer trust the leadership of the Communist Party.
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Our relationship with the Communist Party still makes people nervous.
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Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?
Fiction book (2001) -
The government, still led by members of the former Communist Party, agreed.
Academic text (1999) -
And are you aware that he was the head of the Italian Communist Party for many years?
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Brothers, come join the Communist Party and become the masters of your own rights.
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Given his position of responsibility, the chancellor was obviously a member of the Communist Party.
Academic text (1999) -
And you should know as well as I know, the Chinese Communist Party doesn't just let people leave.
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The Communist Party advocates for policies that aim to create a classless society.
How Radical
- US
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a political party that advocates communism' is directly and transparently compositional from 'communist' (advocating collective ownership/party rule) + 'party' (a political organization). A B1 learner who knows both constituents can reliably infer the MWE's basic meaning, though country-specific facts (e.g., being the sole legal party) are extra pragmatic knowledge, not needed to understand the compound.
Etymology
Communist Party: The name Communist Party comes from communist, a word for people who want things to be 'shared' by everyone, and party, meaning a political 'group'. So a Communist Party is a political group that wants to make land and money shared, and in some countries it became the 'only legal party'.