ਸ਼ਬਦ "ਧੜੇ" ਦਾ ਡਿਕਸ਼ਨਰੀ ਅਰਥ ਇੱਕ ਵੱਡੇ ਸਮੂਹ ਦੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਇੱਕ ਛੋਟਾ ਸੰਗਠਿਤ ਅਸਹਿਮਤੀ ਸਮੂਹ ਹੈ, ਖਾਸ ਕਰਕੇ ਰਾਜਨੀਤੀ ਵਿੱਚ। ਇਹ ਇੱਕ ਸਾਂਝੇ ਕਾਰਨ ਜਾਂ ਵਿਸ਼ਵਾਸ ਵਿੱਚ ਇੱਕਜੁੱਟ ਹੋਏ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਦੇ ਇੱਕ ਸਮੂਹ ਦਾ ਵੀ ਹਵਾਲਾ ਦੇ ਸਕਦਾ ਹੈ, ਜੋ ਕਿ ਇੱਕ ਸਮੂਹ ਦਾ ਵਰਣਨ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਅਕਸਰ ਨਕਾਰਾਤਮਕ ਅਰਥਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਵਰਤਿਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ ਜੋ ਇੱਕ ਵੱਡੀ ਸੰਸਥਾ ਜਾਂ ਸਮਾਜ ਲਈ ਵਿਭਾਜਨਕ ਜਾਂ ਵਿਘਨਕਾਰੀ ਵਜੋਂ ਦੇਖਿਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ।
1. For, as to that infamous practice of acquiring great employments by dancing on the ropes, or badges of favor and distinction by leaping over sticks and creeping under them, the reader is to observe that they were first introduced by the grandfather of the emperor now reigning, and grew to the present height by the gradual increase of party and faction.
2. He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last century, protesting it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, or ambition could produce.
3. I wanted no fence against fraud, or oppression here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos no leaders, or followers, of party and faction no encouragers to vice, by seducement or example no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping posts, or pillories no cheating shopkeepers, or mechanics no pride, vanity, or affectation no fops, bullies, drunkards no ranting, expensive wives no stupid, proud pedants no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions no scoundrels raised from the dust for the sake of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing masters.
4. One political faction, the Andradists, vehemently oppose their plan and argue for the use of intelligent machines instead.
5. The ruling faction flatly refused to condone such research, describing it as inhuman.
6. The daughter of an engraver, Roland was a thirty-five-year-old member of the Girondist faction with Brissot, and an admirer of philosophers like Voltaire.
7. They were all supposed to find a safe haven in Colombia where a powerful faction of the government promised to offer them sanctuary, but you never knew.