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PARTNERSHIP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("partnership" is a kind of...):
contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)
Derivation:
partner (an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest)
partner (a person who is a member of a partnership)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The members of a business venture created by contract
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("partnership" is a kind of...):
business; business concern; business organisation; business organization; concern (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it)
Meronyms (members of "partnership"):
partner (a person who is a member of a partnership)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "partnership"):
copartnership (a partnership in which employees get a share of the profits in addition to their wages)
Derivation:
partner (an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest)
partner (a person who is a member of a partnership)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal
Example:
the action teams worked in partnership with the government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("partnership" is a kind of...):
human relationship; 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))
Context examples:
A company which has some features of a corporation and some features of a partnership.
(Joint Stock Company, NCI Thesaurus)
Developed in partnership with the Juazeiro do Norte College, the ABC Medical School, and Oxford Brookes University, in the UK, the research found the association beneficial in 37 patients.
(Music believed to boost hypertension treatment, Agenciabrasil/EBC)
In partnership with an international team, a group of Brazilian astronomers discovered the existence of a ring around a dwarf planet near Pluto, similar to those of the giant Saturn.
(Brazil astronomers discover ring around dwarf planet near Pluto, Agência Brasil)
Also under research is the use of microalgae in the production of aviation biokerosene (BioQAV) in partnership with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)
It is a public-private partnership, linking all professionals involved in the national donation and transplantation system.
(Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, NCI Thesaurus)
The National Action Plan on Breast Cancer (NAPBC) is a public-private partnership created to eliminate the epidemic of breast cancer.
(National Action Plan on Breast Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)
Why are physiologically costly behaviors retained in long-term reproductive partnerships?
(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)
A suite of database and analysis tools for managing proteomics data; built on LabKey, the open source platform for science developed in partnership with the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center.
(Computational Proteomics Analysis System, NCI Thesaurus)
Founded in 1991 as a partnership between the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Produce for Better Health Foundation, 5 A Day is the nation's largest public/private partnership for nutrition.
(Five-A-Day Program, NCI Thesaurus)
The Center has partnerships with Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, and MetroHealth Medical Center; and became an NCI-designated cancer center in 1987.
(Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
