losing party
collocation in Englishmeaningsofloseandparty
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lose
verb
uk/luːz/us/luːz/
to no longer have something because you do not know where ...
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party
noun
uk/ˈpɑː.ti/us/ˈpɑːr.t̬i/
a social event at which a group of people meet to talk, eat, drink, dance, etc., often in order to celebrate a ...
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(Definition ofloseandpartyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We have excluded as uncontested any election in which thelosingpartyreceived less than 10 per cent of the vote.
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The horizontal dimension has the winning party and the vertical dimension shows thelosingparty.
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More to the point, it is thelosingpartyupon whom the decision can in a significant sense be said to be imposed.
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But thelosingpartyhas no such consolation.
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Equally, activists in thelosingpartyshould have the reverse profile.
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By the same token, political efficacy and group efficacy should favour the winning party compared with thelosingparty.
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In majoritarian electoral systems persons who recall voting for thelosingpartywere more dissatisfied.
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Thelosingpartybecomes the challenger and (from its current platform location) undertakes polls in order to determine a winning platform.
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Under our proposals, the uplift will be recoverable from thelosingparty.
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This is after taking account of the contributions by assisted persons, and costs recovered from thelosingparty.
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One accepts that a choice had to be made and that there would be a winning party and alosingparty.
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If thelosingpartydecides to appeal, much more time elapses.
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Finally, the successful litigant may recover his fee from thelosingparty.
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It was a case of alosingpartydeciding to spend public money in a disgraceful scorched-earth strategy.
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The legally-aided litigant is required to contribute what he can afford, and, where the litigation is successful, costs can be recovered from thelosingparty.
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Tribunals generally, not just leasehold valuation tribunals, do not award costs against alosingpartyin the way a court does.
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I have been surprised at the number of those cases where thelosingpartyhas been legally aided.
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Although the successful party may recover his or her reasonable costs against thelosingparty, in most cases, not all the actual costs are recovered.
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The general rule is that thelosingpartywill pay the winning party's reasonable costs.
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He says that it is unfair to thelosingparty.
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