Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun partnership

3 senses of partnership

Sense 1
partnership -- (the members of a business venture created by contract)
       => business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation -- (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern")

Sense 2
partnership -- (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")
       => relationship, human relationship -- (a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness); "the relationship between mothers and their children")

Sense 3
partnership -- (a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses)
       => contract -- (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)