Partner
['pɑːtnə] or ['pɑrtnɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who is a member of a partnership.
(verb.) provide with a partner.
(verb.) act as a partner; 'Astaire partnered Rogers'.
Typist: Tabitha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a wife. (b) Either one of a couple who dance together. (c) One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business.
(n.) An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership.
(n.) A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like.
(v. t.) To associate, to join.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Associate, colleague, partaker, sharer, participator, participant.[2]. Member of a partnership, member of a firm, one of a firm or house.
Editor: Nat
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Associate, sharer, participator, colleague, coadjutor, confederate, accomplice,partaker, companion, spouse
ANT:Rival, alien, competitor, opponent, counter-age_at
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Definition
n. a sharer: an associate: one engaged with another in business: one who plays on the same side in a game: one who dances with another: a husband or wife.—v.t. (Shak.) to join as a partner.—ns. Part′nership state of being a partner: a contract between persons engaged in any business; Sleep′ing-part′ner one who has money invested in a business but takes no part in its management.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing your business partner with a basket of crockery on his back, and, letting it fall, gets it mixed with other crockery, denotes your business will sustain a loss through the indiscriminate dealings of your partner. If you reprimand him for it, you will, to some extent, recover the loss.
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Examples
- Always interrupting, you are, partner! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He was father's partner, and father broke with him, and now he revenges himself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You must be wandering in your mind, partner,' Silas remonstrated. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The senior partner took the coach, and the junior partner took his walking-stick. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Recovering himself, however, shortly, he turned to his partner, and said, Sir William's interruption has made me forget what we were talking of. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Secondly, In a private copartnery, each partner is bound for the debts contracted by the company, to the whole extent of his fortune. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I am afraid that I-- I have seen you dancing this evening, and you had the very best of the girls for your partners. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A little later, with his partners Need and Strutt, he built a very complete factory at Cromford, on the Derwent River. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A new company was proposed, and prevented only by admitting a number of new partners. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Any one of these partners would have disinherited his son on the question of rebuilding Tellson's. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Those were hard times for Vail and the partners back of him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This machine infringed the partners’ patents, and caused them an almost endless series of expensive lawsuits. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They rejected this with scorn, and at once started a lawsuit against Gutenberg and his partners. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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