PARTNERSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does partnership mean? 

• PARTNERSHIP (noun)
  The noun PARTNERSHIP has 3 senses:

1. the members of a business venture created by contract

2. a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal

3. a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses

  Familiarity information: PARTNERSHIP used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTNERSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The members of a business venture created by contract

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("partnership" is a kind of...):

business; business concern; business organisation; business organization; concern (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it)

Meronyms (members of "partnership"):

partner (a person who is a member of a partnership)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "partnership"):

copartnership (a partnership in which employees get a share of the profits in addition to their wages)

Derivation:

partner (an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest)

partner (a person who is a member of a partnership)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Context example:

the action teams worked in partnership with the government

Hypernyms ("partnership" is a kind of...):

human relationship; relationship (a relation between people; ('relationship' is often used where 'relation' would serve, as in 'the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of 'relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("partnership" is a kind of...):

contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)

Derivation:

partner (an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest)

partner (a person who is a member of a partnership)

 Context examples 

Saturn, the planet that makes you work hard for your accomplishments, has been in your partnership house for two years, starting back in late December 2017.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It has a partnership with Wayne State University School of Medicine and received NCI designation in 1978.

(Barbara Ann Karmano Cancer Institute, NCI Thesaurus)

Each reef-building coral unit is a collection of polyps living in symbiotic partnership with zooxanthellae algae.

(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)

The partnership is part of the second stage of a research project in Russia, where an existing telescope is already dedicated to space debris monitoring.

(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A coded value specifying the domestic partnership status of a person.

(Person Marital Status Code, NCI Thesaurus)

Person declares that a domestic partnership relationship exists.

(Domestic Partnership, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

All the partnership books and papers must remain in our possession; all your books and papers; all money accounts and securities, of both kinds.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Limited partners also enjoy rights to the partnership's cash flow, but are not liable for company obligations.

(Limited Partnership, NCI Thesaurus)

The study highlights important partnerships trees forge with soil microbes and fungi to help them take up the extra nitrogen and phosphorus they need to balance their additional carbon dioxide intake.

(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)