partnership

B2 Topic:People & Society

US /ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/ UK /ˈpɑːtnəʃɪp/ See IPA manual

Freq #7127

Meanings

1

noun
A working relationship in which people or groups share responsibility for a goal.

Effective learning is a partnership between teacher and student.
2

noun
A business owned by two or more people who share the profits and losses.

The two lawyers formed a partnership and opened an office together.

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Word family

Forms partnerships

Derived forms copartnershipmultipartnershipprepartnershipsubpartnership

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partnership certificate
a document recording the interests of members of a business partnership

Noun + noun

Etymology

From partner + -ship. Cognate with Danish partnerskab, Dutch partnerschap, German Partnerschaft, Norwegian Bokmål partnerskap, Norwegian Nynorsk partnerskap, Swedish partnerskap, and West Frisian partnerskip.

Topics

People & Society

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# partnership

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈpɑːtnəʃɪp/
**Frequency rank:** 7127

## Meanings
1. A working relationship in which people or groups share responsibility for a goal.
2. A business owned by two or more people who share the profits and losses.

## Examples
- Effective learning is a partnership between teacher and student.
- The two lawyers formed a partnership and opened an office together.

## Derived Forms
- copartnership
- multipartnership
- prepartnership
- subpartnership

## Etymology
From partner + -ship. Cognate with Danish partnerskab, Dutch partnerschap, German Partnerschaft, Norwegian Bokmål partnerskap, Norwegian Nynorsk partnerskap, Swedish partnerskap, and West Frisian partnerskip.

## AI Etymology
Partnership comes from partner + -ship. Cognate with Danish partnerskab, Dutch partnerschap, German Partnerschaft, Norwegian Bokmål partnerskap, Norwegian Nynorsk partnerskap, Swedish partnerskap, and West Frisian partnerskip. Modern senses include a working relationship in which people or groups share responsibility for a goal and a business owned by two or more people who share the profits and losses. The wider word family includes derivatives such as copartnership, multipartnership, prepartnership, and subpartnership.

## Topics
- People & Society

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