Partnership

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: part=ner=ship

CIDE DICTIONARY

Partnership, 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.  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]

  "He does possession keep,
  And is too wise to hazard partnership."  [1913 Webster]
•  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]
•  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]

  " Community of profit is absolutely essential to, though not necessarily the test of, a partnership."  [1913 Webster]
•  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. société en commandité) 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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Partnership, n.
1 the state of being a partner or partners.
2 a joint business.
3 a pair or group of partners.

THESAURUS

Partnership

Aktiengesellschaft, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, affiliation, aktiebolag, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, assemblage, association, axis, band, bloc, body, body corporate, 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, sharing, society, sodality, sorority, stock company, suffrage, syndicate, tie-in, tie-up, togetherness, trade association, trust, unification, union, utility, voting

ROGET THESAURUS

Partnership

Accompaniment

N accompaniment, adjunct, context, appendage, appurtenance, coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship, partnership, copartnership, coefficiency, concomitant, accessory, coefficient, companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague, consort, spouse, mate, partner, co-partner, satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow, escort, cortege, attribute, accompanying, concomitant, fellow, twin, joint, associated with, coupled with, accessory, attendant, obbligato, with, withal, together with, along with, in company with, hand in hand, side by side, cheek by jowl, cheek by jole, arm in arm, therewith, herewith, and, together, in a body, collectively, noscitur a sociis, virtutis fortuna comes.

Party

N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.

Participation

N participation, cotenancy, joint tenancy, occupancy in common, possession in common, tenancy in common, joint stock, common stock, co-partnership, partnership, communion, community of possessions, community of goods, communism, socialism, cooperation, snacks, coportion, picnic, hotchpot, co-heirship, co-parceny, co- parcenary, gavelkind, participator, sharer, co-partner, partner, shareholder, co-tenant, joint tenant, tenants in common, co-heir, co-parcener, communist, socialist, partaking, communistic, share and share alike.

Concurrence

N concurrence, cooperation, coagency, union, agreement, consilience, consent, coincidence, alliance, concert, additivity, synergy, partnership, common cause, concurring, concurrent, in alliance with, banded together, of one mind, at one with, coinciding, with one consent.