landing party

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   a part of a ship's company organized for special duties ashore

   Broaderparty

Questions about landing party

What does landing party mean?

landing party means "a part of a ship's company organized for special duties ashore".

Is landing party a common word?

landing party is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.