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Definition: Partnership |
PartnershipNoun1. The members of a business venture created by contract. 2. A contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "partnership" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Census | An agreement with a state, local, or tribal government or a community group that gave such an organization an opportunity to participate in various ways in Census 2000. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of forming a partnership with a man, denotes uncertain and fluctuating money affairs. If your partner be a woman, you will engage in some enterprise which you will endeavor to keep hidden from friends. To dissolve an unpleasant partnership, denotes that things will arrange themselves agreeable to your desires; but if the partnership was pleasant, there will be disquieting news and disagreeable turns in your affairs. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Economics | An unincorporated business owned and operated by two or more persons, who, according to the agreement of the partnership, share the profits and the losses, and the responsibilities, and have general or limited liability. (At least one partner must have unlimited liability). (references) |
| An association of persons to carry on a business under a firm name; all the partners are jointly and severally liable for the firm's debts. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A generic term for companies in which, elsewhere than in the UK, the law attaches greater importance to the partners'personal activities than to the capital. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Federal Student Aid | A relationship that provides support to each party. Schools and financial institutions are FSA's partners in providing financial aid to students. (references) |
Finance | A form of business organization in which two or more persons join in a business or commercial enterprise, sharing profits, risks and losses according to the terms set forth in their partnership contract. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In common law partnership is a type of business entity in which partners share with each other the profits or losses of the business undertaking in which they have all invested. In the civil law the partnership is a nominate contract between individuals who, in a spirit of cooperation, agree to carry on a enterprise, contribute to it, by combining property, knowledge or activities and to share its profit.Partners may have a partnership agreement, or declaration of partnership and in some jurisdictions such agreements may be registered and available for public inspection.
See also:
corporation
People can also be partners in a personal relationship. These partnerships need not necesarily have legal status, but they may have it.
Examples of personal partnerships:
See also:
- husband and wife
- Gilbert (librettist) & Sullivan (music)
- Rodgers & Hart
- Rodgers & Hammerstein
- Stanley went to find Livingstone
- Double acts
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Partnership."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sister cities or twin towns are local school and/or chamber of commerce programs designed to foster international communication and cooperation. Like the city version of a "pen pal", a city is assigned one or more similarly sized and situated international cities. Sisters cities usually share characterstics, such as both being coastal cities or island-cities. The programs include exchange students or economic programs.The Sister Cities program was begun in 1956 by Dwight Eisenhower. It was originally administered as part of the National League of Cities, but since 1967 has been a seperate organizations: Sister Cities International.
Sister cities also function on higher level as well (county, state, province). For example, Hainan Province of China befriends with other states and provinces.
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See also Twin Cities, an unrelated term that describes two geographically proximal cities which function much like a single larger city.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sister city."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| PACT | English | Partnership in Advanced Computing Technologies | Computer - (org. UK) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accompaniment | Coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship; partnership, copartnership; coefficiency. |
Concurrence | Noun: concurrence, cooperation, coagency; union; agreement; consilience; consent, coincidence; (assent); alliance; concert, additivity, synergy; partnership. |
Cooperation | Side with, take side with, go along with, go hand in hand with, join hands with, make common cause with, strike in with, unite with, join with, mix oneself up with, take part with, cast in one's lot with; join partnership, enter into partnership with; rally round, follow the lead of; come to, pass over to, come into the views of; be in the same boat, row in the same boat; sail in the same boat; sail on the same tack. |
Participation | Noun: 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. |
Party | Corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company; copartnership, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock company; cahoot, combine, trust. |
Adjective: in league, in partnership, in alliance; n. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin (Bride of Frankenstein; writing credit: William Hurlbut;) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Partnership (1973) The Amazing Partnership (1921) | |
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 | Global partnership to eradicate polio. Credit: CDC. |  | Oyster setting tanks at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River. Used by the Oyster Recovery Partnership, oyster larvae are placed in these tanks for two days, allowing them to set on shells where they stay and continue to grow for the rest of their lives. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | "Buy boat" ROBERT LEE docked at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River. Used by the Oyster Recovery Partnership to transplant oyster spat to permanent oyster beds in the Chesapeake Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Shells containing oyster spat raised by the Oyster Recovery Partnership are bagged and placed on pallets to grow before being transplanted to a designated oyster reef elsewhere in the Chesapeake Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | EDALHAB was built and operated through an industry/academia partnership. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | In 1997, a partnership of industry and government rebuilt AQUARIUS. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Members of the Randolph Air Force Base recycling center bale cardboard as part of the base's profitable recycling efforts. Air Education and Training Command is cashing in on trash, becoming the first federal agency to enter into a cooperative partnership. |  | NRCS Partnership Efforts on the Susquehanna River Affect the Chesapeake Bay. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Ed Perault, helps customers locate the best fishing holes in Arizona. The Arizona Public Lands Information Center (PLIC) is a partnership between the nonprofit Public Lands Interpretive Association and the Bureau of Land Management. The Center offers one-stop-shopping and up to date information on all of the public lands in Arizona. Credit: Chris Tincher. |  | Get your maps, books and licenses here! The Arizona Public Lands Information Center (PLIC) is a partnership between the nonprofit Public Lands Interpretive Association and the Bureau of Land Management. Credit: Chris Tincher. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | Friendship is essentially a partnership. |
John Hay | All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. |
Titus Maccius Plautus | The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | One example of this partnership is NIH/Alzheimer’s Association co-sponsorship of conferences on different aspects of AD research. (references) | |
This organization is a nonprofit patient/health professional partnership dedicated to advancing treatment and management of headache and to raising the public awareness of headache as a valid, biologically based illness. (references) | ||
In partnership with the medical school of Columbia University, the NINDS has established a long-term Arteriovenous Study Group to learn more about the natural course of AVMs in patients and to improve the surgical treatment of these lesions. (references) | ||
Business | Partnership should be carefully considered. (references) | |
They must be looking at local partnership and representation. (references) | ||
In this case the tax is to be withheld by the partnership paying the dividend. (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | It cited 40 separate programs operated by national and international NGO's, some in partnership with Government entities, but notes that most of the programs faced shortfalls in resources and personnel. (references) |
Barbados | In 2000 the Government, labor leaders, and the private sector jointly announced an agreement to promote a code of practice for the employment of persons with disabilities, as part of these groups' continuing social partnership. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | The company had started a 24-hour phone news service in partnership with two independent newspapers in January. (references) |
Discrimination | Brazil | The Secretariat of State Security of Rio de Janeiro state, in partnership with NGO's, continued to operate a hot line to receive complaints of violence or other crimes against homosexuals. (references) |
Economic History | Ireland | However, if the partnership agreement unravels, and inflationary pressures continue, there is a risk the subsequent rise in wage rates will hurt Ireland's international competitiveness and, ultimately, spark an economic slowdown in the export sector of the economy. (references) |
Ireland | This has been facilitated through social partnership agreements among the government, labor and employers; these have held down wage costs. (references) | |
Human Rights | United Kingdom | In 1998 the services entered into a 5-year partnership agreement with the Commission on Racial Equality (CRE) to promote racial equality practices. (references) |
Political Economy | Austria | Austria joined the Partnership for Peace in 1995. There is an ongoing debate within the country about NATO membership as an option for the future. (references) |
Romania | The Strategic Partnership established in 1997 provided a framework for closer cooperation in regional political, economic, and military affairs. (references) | |
Political Rights | Burundi | On June 4, 1998, Buyoya's regime and the National Assembly entered into a partnership agreement. (references) |
Trade | Kuwait | An U.S. company may receive financing through their local agent or by a joint venture partnership formed with a Kuwaiti counterpart. (references) |
Guyana | Guyana also enjoys preferential market access to the United States under the Caribbean Basin Initiative, to Canada under CaribCan, and to the European Union under a partnership agreement that provides continuation of Lome IV trade provisions until 2007. Guyana also has several nonreciprocal preferential agreements with Venezuela and Colombia. (references) | |
Travel | South Africa | South African Airways, sharing a codeshare partnership with Delta Airlines, is currently the sole provider of direct flights to South Africa from New York's Kennedy Airport. (references) |
Egypt | Explore different markets - be flexible to change from partnership to technology transfer or royalty provisions. (references) | |
Women | Bahamas | In November 2000, the Department of Social Services in partnership with a private company established, for the first time, two safe houses to assist battered women. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bangladesh | Action Against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children (ATSEC), a national antitrafficking network, recently began to implement several antitrafficking activities; including linking NGO's and Government entities into a strong partnership, establishing a focal point for moving the national anti-trafficking agenda forward, establishing a resource center to disseminate data on the subject, and providing technical support to grassroots organizations. (references) |
Ireland | The latest version of these agreements, the Partnership for Prosperity and Fairness, was signed in 2000. The Labor Relations Commission provides advice and conciliation services in industrial disputes. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Only a total working partnership among Federal, State, and local governments can succeed. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We can do this by fashioning a new partnership between the Congress on the one hand, the White House on the other, and the people we both represent. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This new atmosphere demands a new spirit, a partnership between those of us who lead and those who elect. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We'll continue to support the Job Training Partnership Act, which has a nearly two-thirds job placement rate. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Especially to two, who struggled in partnership with Congresses of the opposite party. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Partnership" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.88% of the time. "Partnership" is used about 3,205 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.88% | 3,169 | 2,976 |
| Noun (proper) | 1% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (common) | 0.12% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,205 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | John Lewis Partnership P.L.C. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "partnership": co partnership ♦ enter into partnership ♦ enter into partnership with ♦ general partnership ♦ Global Water Partnership Network ♦ i partnership ♦ Limited partnership ♦ National Partnership for Women and Families ♦ Oxygen Partnership Alliance ♦ partnership certificate ♦ partnership in commendam ♦ Partnership Practice ♦ Partnership UK ♦ silent partnership ♦ special partnership ♦ take into partnership. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "partnership": partnership-based. | |
Ending with "partnership": co-partnership, horse-partnership, quasi-partnership. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "partnership"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ortakëri (copartnership), bashkëpjesëmarrje. (various references) | |
Arabic | اشتراك (participation), مشاركة (communion, input, involvement, part, participation, presence, sharing), إشتراك (collaboration, implication, participation, subscription), شراكة (copartnership). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съучастие (cahoots), съдружничество, съдружие (clubbing), участие (appurtenance, communion, contribution, dos, immixture, interest, part, participation, share). (various references) | |
Chinese | 合作 (collaborate, Collaboration, collaborative, Cooperation, Cooperative). (various references) | |
Czech | partnerství (cahoots), spoluúèast (complicity), spoleènost (association, community, companionship, company, corporation, incorporation, league, party, set, society, world), spoleèný podnik, spoleèenství (commonalty, communion, community, corporation, guild), družstvo (co op, contingent, coop, cooperative, squad, syndicate, team). (various references) | |
Danish | partnerskab, interessentskab (association, consortium, joint interest, syndicate), forhold mellem partnere (partners relationship), erhvervsdrivende interessentskab, ansvarligt interessentskab (general partnership). (various references) | |
Dutch | personenvennootschap, partnerschap, VOF, vennootschap van personen, vennootschap onder firma, samenwerkingsverband (association, consortium, joint interest, syndicate), relatie tussen de deelnemende partijen (partners relationship), alliantie (alliance). (various references) | |
Farsi | مشارکت (Communion), انبازی , شرکاء . (various references) | |
Finnish | osakkuus (association, joint interest, partners relationship). (various references) | |
French | société en nom collectif. (various references) | |
German | Partnerschaft (copartnership, twinning). (various references) | |
Greek | κοινοπραξία (combine, joint venture, pool), σύμπραξη (collaboration), συνεργασία (collaboration, contribution, cooperation, interplay), συνεταιρικές σχέσεις (partners relationship), συνεταιρισμόσ (association, cahoot, copartnership, partship), συντροφιά (bevy, camaraderie, circle, companionship, company, coterie, fellow ship, partship, society), προσωπική εταιρεία (association, joint interest), πνεύμα συνεργασίας, εταιρική σχέση, ομόρρυθμος εταιρεία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שתופ", שתוף (analogy, communion, community, joining, participation, sharing), שותפות (association, cahoots, co partnership). (various references) | |
Hungarian | társas viszony (copartnership). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perkongsian (consortium), rekanan (friend, partner, steady customer), musyarakah, kemitraan. (various references) | |
Italian | societ (association, club, company, corporation, society, trust), associazione (association, club, combination, combine, company, conjunction, fellowship, guild, league, society, union). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | パートタイ "業" (padre, palm ball, par play, parliament, parlor, part time employee, partner, pearl, pearl gray, perfect, perfect game, performance, perlite, permanent, permanent pleats, permanent press, permanent wave, permission, purple), 共同組合 (cooperative). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パートナーシップ , きょうどうくみあい (a co-operative, a partnership, cooperative). (various references) | |
Korean | 공동체 . (various references) | |
Manx | paarteeas, boodeeys (copartnership). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | artnershippay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | parceria (association, team play). (various references) | |
Romanian | participare (communion, concern, contribution, participation, portion, share), tovãrãşie (cahoot, companionship, company, comradeship, fellowship, friendship, society), interese comune, companie (companionship, company, crowd, group, presence, society), calitatea de partener, asociere (association, coupling, join, joinder). (various references) | |
Russian | участие (concern, do, immixture, involvement, partaking, participation, share), товарищество (camaraderie, company, comradeship, copartnership, fellowship), партнерство. (various references) | |
Scottish | comp irt. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | partnerstvo, ortakluk, ortaštvo. (various references) | |
Spanish | asociación (affiliation, association, combine, consort, fellowship, institute, institution, league, society). (various references) | |
Swedish | delägarskap (co ownership, co-ownership, copartnership), enkelt bolag. (various references) | |
Turkish | ortaklık (association, community, company, coparcenary, copartnership, joint adventure, joint undertaking, joint venture, participation, privity, tie up), hissedarlık (being a share-holder, copartnership, parcenary). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | участь (immixture, part, partaking, participation, share), товариство (army, association, camaraderie, company, drawing room, fellowship, institution, order, society, world). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự chung thân hội, công ty (firm). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | consortia, consortio, consortium, societas, societate, societatem, societatis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "partnership": partnerships. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "partnership": copartnership. (additional references) | |
Words containing "partnership": copartnerships. (additional references) | |
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"Partnership" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parnership, partenrship, Parternship, partership, patnership, portership. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "partnership" (pronounced pÄ"rtnershi'p) |
| 5 | -n er sh i' p | governorship, ownership. |
| 4 | -er sh i' p | ambassadorship, authorship, censorship, conservatorship, dealership, dictatorship, directorship, distributorship, editorship, leadership, membership, professorship, proprietorship, readership, receivership, ridership, scholarship, speakership, sponsorship, viewership. |
| 3 | -sh i' p | airship, apprenticeship, battleship, bipartisanship, brinkmanship, brinksmanship, chairmanship, championship, citizenship, companionship, consulship, craftsmanship, draftsmanship, entrepreneurship, fellowship, flagship, friendship, gamesmanship, generalship, guardianship, gunship, hardship, headship, horsemanship, internship, interrelationship, judgeship, kingship, kinship, Lightship, marksmanship, musicianship, partisanship, premiership, relationship, salesmanship, showmanship, spaceship, sportsmanship, starship, statesmanship, steamship, stewardship, township, trusteeship, upmanship, warship, workmanship. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-n-p-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: perianths, phratries, preprints, pretrains, terrapins, transpire. | |
-3 letters: appriser, epitaphs, hairnets, happiest, heparins, inearths, nappiest, painters, panthers, pantries, partiers, partners, perianth, periapts, pertains, pinaster, preprint, pretrain, printers, pristane, repaints, reprints, restrain, retrains, sapphire, seraphin, snappier, sprinter, strainer, strapper, stripper, terrains, terrapin, thespian, trainers, tranship, trappers, trashier, triphase, trippers. | |
-4 letters: anestri, anthers, antsier, apprise, arpents. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-n-p-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: partnerships. | |
+2 letters: copartnership. | |
+3 letters: copartnerships. | |
+4 letters: parthenocarpies. | |
+5 letters: hematoporphyrins, photorespiration. | |
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