'Partnership' definitions:
Definition of 'partnership'
From: WordNet
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"
noun
A contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses
Definition of 'Partnership'
From: GCIDE
- Partnership \Part"ner*ship\, n.
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A division or sharing among partners; joint possession or interest. [1913 Webster]
- Rome, that ne'er knew three lordly heads before, First fell by fatal partnership of power. --Rowe. [1913 Webster]
- He does possession keep, And is too wise to hazard partnership. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) 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. --Kent. --Story. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Community of profit is absolutely essential to, though not necessarily the test of, a partnership. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Arith.) See Fellowship, n., 6. [1913 Webster]
- Limited partnership, a form of partnership in which the firm consists of one or more general partners, jointly and severally responsible as ordinary partners, and one or more special partners, who are not liable for the debts of the partnership beyond the amount of cash they contribute as capital.
- Partnership in commendam, the title given to the limited partnership (F. soci['e]t['e] en commandit['e]) of the French law, introduced into the code of Louisiana. --Burrill.
- Silent partnership, the relation of partnership sustained by a person who furnishes capital only. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'partnership'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affiliation,
- aktiebolag,
- Aktiengesellschaft,
- alignment,
- alliance,
- amalgamation,
- assemblage,
- association,
- axis,
- band,
- bloc,
- body,
- body corporate,
- Bund,
- business,
- business establishment,
- cahoots,
- cartel,
- chamber of commerce,
- coadunation,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- cochairmanship,
- colleagueship,
- college,
- collegialism,
- collegiality,
- combination,
- combine,
- commercial enterprise,
- common market,
- community,
- compagnie,
- companionship,
- company,
- complicity,
- comradeship,
- concern,
- condominium,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- confraternity,
- conglomerate,
- conglomerate corporation,
- conjunction,
- connection,
- consociation,
- consolidating company,
- consolidation,
- consortium,
- consortship,
- consumer cooperative,
- contribution,
- cooperative,
- cooperative society,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- corporate body,
- corporation,
- corps,
- cotenancy,
- council,
- credit union,
- customs union,
- diversified corporation,
- economic community,
- engagement,
- enterprise,
- federation,
- fellowship,
- firm,
- fraternalism,
- fraternity,
- fraternization,
- free trade area,
- freemasonry,
- fusion,
- gang,
- group,
- grouping,
- having a part,
- holding company,
- hookup,
- house,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- industry,
- integration,
- involvement,
- joint chairmanship,
- joint control,
- joint ownership,
- joint tenancy,
- joint-stock association,
- joint-stock company,
- league,
- machine,
- merger,
- mob,
- operating company,
- partaking,
- participation,
- plunderbund,
- political machine,
- pool,
- public utility,
- ring,
- Rochdale cooperative,
- sharing,
- society,
- sodality,
- sorority,
- stock company,
- suffrage,
- syndicate,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- togetherness,
- trade association,
- trust,
- unification,
- union,
- utility,
- voting