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Partnering

[pahrt-ner] Origin

part·ner

[pahrt-ner]
noun
1.
a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
2.
Law.
a.
a person associated with another or others as a principal or a contributor of capital in a business or a joint venture, usually sharing its risks and profits.
4.
a husband or a wife; spouse.
5.
either of two people who dance together: my favorite partner in the waltz.
EXPAND
6.
a player on the same side or team as another: My tennis partner was an excellent player.
7.
partners, Nautical. a framework of timber round a hole in a ship's deck, to support a mast, capstan, pump, etc.
COLLAPSE
verb (used with object)
8.
to associate as a partner or partners with.
9.
to serve as the partner of.

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Partnering is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English partener, alteration of parcener by association with part

part·ner·less, adjective
non·part·ner, noun
un·der·part·ner, noun


1. colleague, accessory, accomplice.

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partner
late 13c., from O.Fr. parçener "joint heir," from parçon "partition," from L. partitionem (nom. partitio) "portion" (see partition). Form infl. by part (n.). The word may also represent O.Fr. part tenour "part holder." Partnership in the commercial sense is attested from c.1700.
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