Partnership
['pɑːtnəʃɪp] or ['pɑrtnɚʃɪp]
Definition
(noun.) a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses.
(noun.) the members of a business venture created by contract.
(noun.) a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal; 'effective language learning is a partnership between school, teacher and student'; 'the action teams worked in partnership with the government'.
Typist: Sam--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.
(n.) A division or sharing among partners; joint possession or interest.
(n.) An alliance or association of persons for the prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership.
(n.) A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure.
(n.) See Fellowship, n., 6.
Checked by Curtis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Union, connection, interest, participation.[2]. Copartnership, company, association, society, firm, house.
Typist: Mabel
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Union, connection, company, firm, joint_interest, co-operation, society, house,[See CONNECTION]
Edited by Cary
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of forming a partnership with a man, denotes uncertain and fluctuating money affairs. If your partner be a woman, you will engage in some enterprise which you will endeavor to keep hidden from friends. To dissolve an unpleasant partnership, denotes that things will arrange themselves agreeable to your desires; but if the partnership was pleasant, there will be disquieting news and disagreeable turns in your affairs.
Checked by Jo
Examples
- Now, we are a partnership of three, dear Pa. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed till we drop--and if we can't keep it up alone, we have to go into partnership. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Ogden, who was ready to give him credit and enter into partnership with him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I was on a visit to Alf's plantation, for it was after we had dissolved partnership. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- All the partnership books and papers must remain in our possession; all your books and papers; all money accounts and securities, of both kinds. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- At last he was satisfied, and told Gutenberg that he would enter into partnership with him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I am working up towards a partnership, you know. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The opposition to the completed machine seemed insuperable, and Fisher, believing it to be so, at length withdrew from his partnership with Howe. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP I did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary Debates, to cool. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Plornish; the partnership expressing man and wife. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I began explaining to her that secret history of the partnership. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This partnership continued eighteen years, successfully for us both. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- How he had, thereupon, sworn his landlord, Mr Rugg, to secrecy in a solemn manner, and taken him into Moleing partnership. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr. Thornton declined having any share in a partnership, which would frustrate what few plans he had that survived the wreck of his fortunes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I now withdrew from the co-partnership with Boggs, and, in May, 1860, removed to Galena, Illinois, and took a clerkship in my father's store. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The answer is that justice is of use in contracts, and contracts are money partnerships. Plato. The Republic.
- I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And by contracts you mean partnerships? Plato. The Republic.
- Yes; but how in such partnerships is the just man of more use than any other man? Plato. The Republic.
Inputed by Elsa