partnership

Plural: partnerships

Noun

• the members of a business venture created by contract
• 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"
• a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses
• The state of being associated with a partner.
• An association of two or more people to conduct a business
• 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,

Examples

• forge a partnership