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noun

Partner n.

One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Hence:

(a)

A husband or a wife.

(b)

Either one of a couple who dance together.

(c)

One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business. "My other self, the partner of my life."

(Law) An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership.

pl. (Naut.) A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like.

Dormant partner, or Silent partner. See under Dormant, a.

Synonyms: Associate; colleague; coadjutor; confederate; partaker; participator; companion; comrade; mate.

verb

Partner v. t. To associate, to join. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Partner'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Partner" Quotes from Famous Books

... join them, and that my papers might be published in the Register. He intimated that he had five hundred subscribers [to the 'American Magazine'] who would continue to take the new work, and that the improvement proposed would greatly increase the number of subscribers. I objected against being a partner, but had no objection against letting them have my papers for L500. After a variety of negotiations, I consented to become a partner,—and they agreed to allow me L500 for my papers, to be paid out of the profits ...

— Noah Webster - American Men of Letters • Horace E. Scudder

... and poor as Job's turkey. I have been in some hard places, seen poverty and trial, and I have had more than my share of success, but in not one instance, either of failure or triumph, would I have been better off single. My partner in this task of living has doubled every joy ...

— 21 • Frank Crane

... participant in a plot for the ruin of Leonidas. Unless warned betimes the Spartan king and all who followed him infallibly would be captured or slaughtered to a man. And he had heard all—the traitor, the discussion, the design—had even, if without his choice, been partner and helper in the same. The blood of Leonidas and his men would be on his head. Every curse the Athenians had heaped on him once unjustly, he would deserve. Now truly he would be, even in his own mind's eyes, "Glaucon ...

— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis

... know who was faithful. There was a general leaning towards his favour among all the officers, with whom he had been in close connection when in Khartoum. He was a man in a high social position in the Soudan, the partner of the great firm of Agad & Co., who commanded about 2,500 armed men. He had worked for many years in company with the government, according to his connection ...

— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker

... thought that this girl, whom he had unconsciously set upon a pedestal to worship from afar, should always find him in some menial and humiliating position. It was bad enough that she should see him as a sparring partner of a professional pug, but it made it infinitely worse that she should see him as what he must appear, an unsuccessful third ...

— The Efficiency Expert • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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