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partnership

/ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/ noun B2
  1. The state of being associated with a partner. (countable, uncountable) · scientists working in close partnership with colleagues overseas
  2. An association of two or more people to conduct a business. (countable, uncountable) · forge a partnership
  3. The period when two specific batsmen are batting, from the fall of one wicket until the fall of the next; the number of runs scored during this period. (countable, uncountable)

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THE ASS and the Fox, having entered into partnership together for their mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 6 · B2
A FOX entered into partnership with a Lion on the pretense of becoming his servant.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 91 · B2
Having an English job to do, they took into partnership, as any foreign criminal could do, this great consultant in crime.
The Valley of Fear, p. 102 · C1
It came out in evidence that, in partnership with Colonel Moran, he had actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in a sitting, some weeks before, from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 3 · C1

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