partner
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partner/ˈpɑːtnə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a person who takes part in an undertaking with another or others, especially in a business or firm with shared risks and profits.
- 2 either of two people doing something as a couple or pair.
- 3 either member of a married couple or of an established unmarried couple.
- 4 US dated or dialect a friendly form of address by one man to another.
- 1 be the partner of.
- 2 N. Amer. associate as partners.
– derivatives
partnerless adjective.
partnerless adjective.
– origin ME: alt. of parcener ‘partner, joint heir’, from Anglo-Norman Fr. parcener, based on L. partitio(n-) ‘partition’.
'partner' also found in these Oxford entries:
associate
- barn dance
- batter
- bedmate
- better
- bit
- bondage
- catch
- chuck
- codependency
- colleague
- common law
- conjugal rights
- consort
- convention
- coparcener
- co-partner
- cruise
- cue bid
- dinky
- domestic partner
- dummy
- echo
- ex
- forcing
- free love
- gigolo
- handmaid
- helpmate
- house husband
- lay
- leave
- limited partner
- live-in
- lumber
- make
- mate
- monosomy
- old lady
- old man
- old woman
- oral sex
- other
- paramour
- partnership
- penetrate
- personal advertisement
- raise
- rim
