biparty

[bahy-pahr-tee]

adjective

1. representing two distinct parties.

   a biparty investigating committee.

Word History and Origins

Origin of biparty¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; bi- ¹ + party

Example Sentences

But it was actually the biparty line from members of Congress as they returned for a lame-duck session after an election that will give the Senate majority back to the Republicans in January and make the divide between the White House and Congress a clear Democratic-GOP faceoff.

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When Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, and out of their struggles to control Father Washington's ear arose the biparty system.

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For a while, the Communists honored their promise of biparty "parity."

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