National Party
noun
(in New Zealand) the more conservative of the two main political parties
(in Australia) a political party drawing its main support from rural areas
Former name: National Country Party
(in South Africa) a political party composed mainly of centre-to-right-wing Afrikaners, which ruled from 1948 until the country's first multiracial elections in 1994: renamed the New National Party (NNP) in 1999
See also Progressive Federal Party, United Party
Example sentences from the Web for national party
The Ghent treaty was intended expressly to destroy the inquisition and the placards, answered the national-party.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Volume III.(of III) 1574-84 |John Lothrop Motley