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say it: PAHRT-nur-ship
partnership is a noun meaning "the members of a business venture created by contract". It is pronounced /ˈpɑɹtnɚˌʃɪp/ — PAHRT-nur-ship. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the members of a business venture created by contract
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”
a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for partnership come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.