partnership

1. 1.

   the members of a business venture created by contract

   Broaderbusiness

   Narrowercopartnership
2. 2.

   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”

   Broaderrelationship
3. 3.

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

   Broadercontract

Other forms of partnership

plural

partnerships·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about partnership

What does partnership mean?

partnership means "the members of a business venture created by contract". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in partnership?

partnership has 3 syllables: part-ner-ship. The stress falls on "part". In IPA it is /ˈpɑɹtnɚˌʃɪp/.

Is partnership a common word?

partnership is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with partnership?

54 words rhyme with partnership. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.