A company that is contracted, by a bank etc., to conduct some part of a financial transaction process; especially a company that provides software or hardware for such a process

(idiomatic) A party to celebrate when a person decides to leave a house or flat, and sometimes to help prepare the space for the incoming residents.

A Canadian social-democratic political party which fields candidates in both federal and provincial elections.

(Britain) a short radio or television broadcast made by a political party

The ability (or the difficulty) of focusing one's attention on a single auditory source in a jumble of noises.

(law, archaic) The party to a legal dispute against whom a complaint was initially raised in a court.

(law, archaic) The party to a legal dispute who first raised a complaint in a court. / (law, archaic) The first party named in a contract, generally the party agreeing to perform a duty thereunder.

(law) A derivative lawsuit brought by a defendant in an original lawsuit, claiming that another new party being brought in is responsible for or should share in the plaintiff's damages against the defendant.

(mathematics) A graph consisting of two rows of paired nodes in which all nodes except the paired ones are connected with straight lines; it is the complement of the ladder graph, and the dual graph of the hypercube.

(dated, Ireland) trick or treat