partner1 nounpartner2 verb
partnerpart‧ner1 /ˈpɑːtnə $ ˈpɑːrtnər/ ●●● S2 W2 AWL noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINpartner1
Origin:
1300-1400 Anglo-French parcener ‘heir sharing half’, from Old French parçon ‘share’; influenced by partEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Are we allowed to bring our partners to the staff party?
- Have you got a partner for the dance on Saturday?
- Have you met my partner, Ray?
- Japan is a major trading partner of the US.
- Let's have a game of cards -- you and Frank can be partners.
- Manson and I were business partners, but not friends.
- People who have many sexual partners are more at risk from AIDS.
- Previously, Ellsworth was a partner at the accounting firm of Deloitte Touche.
- Running with a partner can keep your work-out from being boring.
- Sweden allows gay partners to receive many of the benefits awarded to heterosexual married couples.
- The firm was so successful that she took on a partner.
- The office party is on Friday, but partners aren't invited.
- The sale of the firm could make each of the senior partners into millionaires.
- The survey found that only about one of every four men had had ten or more sexual partners over their lifetime.
- Try not to step on your partner's toes.
- We called a meeting with Russco, our partners in the construction project.
- When I saw her again, she was dancing with a different partner.
- At this point Youhana had only 37, but he found an adhesive partner in Saqlain.
- Honesty is vital - honesty with yourself about your feelings and honesty with your partner.
- Its main strategic partner is Cisco Systems.
- Joint sessions with the partner or close relatives are often the best means of dealing with these problems.
- Your partner has to guess the name of the product.
THESAURUShusband/wife etc
the man/woman you are married to: · My wife’s a teacher.
the person you live with and have a sexual relationship with. Partner is often used when people are not married, or when you do not know if they are married. It is also used when talking about same-sex couples: · He lives with his partner Ruth and their eight-month-old son.
the man/woman you are engaged to: · He and fiancée Wendy Hodgson will marry in July.
a woman who is divorced: · The prince announced his intention to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.
a woman or man whose husband or wife has died: · Imelda Marcos, the widow of the former president
formal your spouse is your husband or wife: · The rule applies to spouses and children of military personnel.
formal someone’s estranged husband or wife is one who they do not live with anymore: · She is trying to get her sons back from her estranged husband.
a boy or man that you have a romantic relationship with, especially for a fairly long time: · Josh was my first boyfriend.
the person you are married to, or the person you are living with and having a sexual relationship with: · Sweden allows gay partners to receive many of the same benefits that married couples get.· Partners are also welcome.
the man whom a woman is going to marry: · Her fiancé was killed in the war.
someone who you have a sexual relationship with, without being married to them: · A few nights later, they became lovers.
informal a woman’s former husband or boyfriend: · Her ex has caused a lot of trouble for her.
informal someone who was your boyfriend in the past: · In a box in the closet, I found love letters from one of her old flames.
informal a woman’s husband or boyfriend: · She’ll always stand by her man.
old-fashioned the person that you love: · They were childhood sweethearts.
old-fashioned a woman’s boyfriend or lover – a very old-fashioned use: · Does she have a beau?
informal humorous a young man who is having a sexual relationship with an older woman: · A woman with a toy boy gets a lot more disapproving looks than a man with a younger woman.
informal an older man who gives a younger woman presents and money in return for their company and often for sex: · I can imagine her cashing checks from some mysterious sugar daddy.
if you are going out with a boy or man, you have him as your boyfriend: · She’s been going out with Jack for a couple of months.
→ girlfriend a girl or woman that you have a romantic relationship with, especially for a fairly long time: · Katherine was his first girlfriend.
the person you are married to, or the person you are living with and having a sexual relationship with: · He brought his partner along to the party.
informal someone who was your girlfriend or boyfriend in the past: · I found a love letter from one of his old flames.
a woman that a man has a sexual relationship with even though he is married to someone else. Often used when the man is famous or powerful: · The president had a mistress for many years.
someone who you have a sexual relationship with, but who you are not married to: · He was going to meet his secret lover.
the woman who a man is going to marry: · Rod plans to marry his fiancée later this year.
informal a man’s former wife or girlfriend: · My ex looks after the children on Thursdays.
if you are going out with a girl or woman, she is your girlfriend: · She’s going out with a guy she met at work.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who dances someone who dances, either because it is their job or for enjoyment: · I'm not a very good dancer.· a world famous dancerballet/belly/break etc dancer: · The ballet dancer, Rudolph Nureyev, died at the age of fifty-four.
another person that you dance with: · When I saw her again, she was dancing with a different partner.· Try not to step on your partner's toes.
someone that you have a romantic or sexual relationship with a girl or woman that you have a romantic relationship with, especially for a fairly long time: somebody's girlfriend: · I met my brother's new girlfriend last night.· Katherine is his first girlfriend since breaking up with Maggie.have a girlfriend: · Does Mark have a girlfriend?old/ex-/former girlfriend (=someone who used to be your girlfriend): · Denver police said the suspect had earlier made threats to kill his ex-girlfriend and then himself.serious/steady girlfriend (=a girlfriend that you have a serious romantic relationship with): · Wendell hasn't had a steady girlfriend in years.
a boy or man that you have a romantic relationship with, especially for a fairly long time : somebody's boyfriend: · Josh was my first boyfriend.· All she does is talk about her boyfriend.have a boyfriend: · I was talking to this guy at the bar and he starting asking me whether I was married or had a boyfriend.old/ex-/former boyfriend (=someone who used to be your boyfriend): · Oh, my God! I've just seen Barry, my ex-boyfriend.serious/steady boyfriend (=a boyfriend that you have a serious romantic relationship with): · Sarah's doing well and has a serious boyfriend, Michael, whom she plans to marry next year.
someone that you have a serious romantic and sexual relationship with, especially someone that you live with: · Sweden allows gay partners to receive many of the benefits awarded to heterosexual married couples.sexual partner: · The survey found that only about one of every four men had had ten or more sexual partners over their lifetime.
a woman who has a sexual relationship with a man who is married to someone else: · She thought that her husband had a mistress but could not prove it.· The former Prime Minister's wife and mistress both attended the funeral.
someone who you have a sexual relationship with, without being married to them: somebody's lover: · That night she received a call from her lover.have a lover: · Over her lifetime, Catherine had many lovers.become lovers: · A few nights later, they became lovers.be lovers: · Kilpatrick claims that she and the congressman were once lovers.
informal someone who was your girlfriend or boyfriend in the past: · In a box in the closet, I found love letters from one of his old flames.· After 17 years of marriage, he left his wife for an old flame he ran into at a high school reunion.
the people who are married two people who are married to each other, or who are having a romantic relationship: · An elderly couple live next door.· They're a nice couple, aren't they?married couple: · Shirley and Bob are a young married couple with two small children.
a man and woman who have recently married: · Everyone left at about midnight, leaving the newlyweds alone at last.· The hotel seemed to be full of newlyweds.
formal a married couple: as man and wife: · Terry and Meena aren't married but they live together as man and wife.pronounce somebody man and wife (=say that two people are officially married): · Mom burst into tears as the minister pronounced us man and wife.
· Are you married or single?· We've been married for 25 years.married to · Geraldine was married to the richest man in France and still pretended she couldn't afford a new outfit.happily married · Richard is happily married with two young children.
the woman that a man is married to: · My wife's career is very important to her.· Have you met the Ambassador's wife?first/second etc wife: · He remarried after his first wife died of cancer.
the man that a woman is married to: · I don't like Francesca's husband very much.· How many husbands would stay at home and take care of the children while their wife goes out to work?first/second etc husband: · Gary's her second husband.
formal the man or woman that someone is married to - use this in legal or official contexts: · You may choose to pay income tax jointly or separately from your spouse.
the person that someone lives with in a romantic relationship - use this whether they are married or not: · Have you met my partner, Ray?· The office party is on Friday, but partners aren't invited.
someone who does something with someone else someone who takes part in a sport or game, or a business or social activity with you: · Have you got a partner for the dance on Saturday?· The firm was so successful that she took on a partner.· We called a meeting with Russco, our partners in the construction project.a business/trading partner: · Manson and I were business partners, but not friends.a marriage/sexual partner: · People who have many sexual partners are more at risk from AIDS.be partners: · Let's have a game of cards -- you and Frank can be partners.
: fellow passenger/worker/student etc someone who is travelling, working, studying etc with you: · The accident happened when Roland was walking home with fellow student Karl Xavier.· Toni's views on the Kyoto Treaty were echoed by her fellow workers.
someone that you spend a lot of time with, especially someone that provides friendship or conversation while you are doing something, for example travelling: · Mum and Dad didn't seem to approve much of my new companions.· He left the major part of his £60 million fortune to his close friend and companion, Jerry Edwards.a drinking/travelling etc companion: · Ed is a great travelling companion - funny and sensible at the same time.
informal someone who spends a lot of time with another person, and is usually less important or powerful than them: · Tom and his sidekick Larry sauntered into the bar, plainly looking for a fight.· Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr Watson
someone who helps another person to commit a crime: · After the robbery, the men escaped in a stolen car driven by an accomplice.accomplice in: · Two other boys were accused of being accomplices in the attack.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Only 29% of lone parents receive financial support from their former partners. The senior partner has retired. Take your partners for the next dance. Nigeria is our principal trading partner in Africa. The group is a junior partner (=less important group) in the PLO’s governing coalition.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Only 29% of lone parents receive financial support from their former partners. The senior partner has retired. Take your partners for the next dance. Nigeria is our principal trading partner in Africa. The group is a junior partner (=less important group) in the PLO’s governing coalition. (=someone who shares a business with you)· Margie was his wife and also his business partner.
· There were fundamental differences between the two main coalition partners.
(=in a law firm etc)· He was a senior partner in a prestigious Canadian law firm.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Last month, we enacted legislation to allow civil marriage ceremonies for domestic partners in San Francisco.· The archdiocese still hopes to persuade the city to exempt Catholic Charities from the domestic partners ordinance, he said.· Businesses that do not apply equal benefits to employees with domestic partners, they say, unfairly discriminate.· The City states in its briefs that the domestic partners ordinance does not interfere with those statutes.· The cost of the ceremony will be $ 35, which comes on top of a $ 30 domestic partners registration fee.· A law passed by voters in 1994 gave retirement and health benefits to city employees' domestic partners.· At issue is whether domestic partners benefits are covered by the federal statute.· Aftergut argued that domestic partners benefits can be set aside from the federal act.
· Teacher and pupil, even primary school pupil, were equal partners in this joint exploration.· I say that what I want is an equal partner.· On the campaign trail, she made it clear she wanted to be an equal partner.· The modern wife is considered more of an equal partner and helpmate than a chattel or a housekeeper.· In some cases all the centres involved may be equal partners.· In fact, psychology and biology have to be equal partners in our analysis of the brain.· It promised to adopt more democratic structures and said it would be an equal partner with other political parties.
· The plaintiff was the senior partner and the defendant the junior partner.· Through the oil cartels, the United States dealt some stinging slaps to its junior partners.· This was J.P. Morgan's forerunner and whose junior partner was Pierpont.· But to be an ally of the West is of course to be a junior partner.· The Church drew ever closer to the State but became a distinctly junior partner.· The resumption has shaken the Green party, the junior partner in Chancellor Gerhard Schro der's coalition.
· There was no effect when only the male partner was a smoker.· The risks, however, are not equal between male and female partners.· In London in 1994 9,800 women were attacked by their male partners, compared to 887 men.· Males, in particular, are quickly inhibited from approaching a female if she is already interacting with a male partner.· One of the key differences between the two relates to the impact of a male partner in the household.· Females benefit from having several male partners because they all help to rear her young.· Women's caring responsibilities frequently include the welfare of male partners as well as children.
· A firm looking to expand will not simply contemplate recruiting new partners or opening up new branch offices.· Evidently the new strategic partners are permitted offensive missiles for mutual annihilation but not defenses against an accidental launch.· Yet his new partner Mahela Jayawardene nearly perished when he mis-timed a drive off Giles.· Finding new partners reassures them that they're still attractive and desirable.· But Irina Rodnina went on to ever-greater skating heights with new partner Alexander Zaitsev, whom she wed in 1975.· The company has said it is seeking new partners to continue operations.· You may wonder why Barclays seems happy to let its new partner deplore the practices of old-style banking.
· However, combined results disguised a collapse of support for the Independent Smallholders' Party, the other government coalition partner.· The recommendation would help married or unmarried partners whose homes are held in the other partner's name.· On the other hand, partners can be very supportive in labour, especially if they've attended classes.· Business deals would not be made where people did not know the other partner to the contract.· I soon learned to dance, beginning with other girls as partners.· Hence autonomy is lost and some form of agreement with the other partners is necessary in order to make worthwhile business decisions.· Although they were not lovers they stayed together, sought no other partners.· Have your partner sit down on the mat, extending one leg and flexing the other.
· This then results in a new set of relationships with the family of the potential partner.· At no point throughout his coalition negotiations did Barak consider the Arab parties as potential partners.· If we were hermaphrodites, everybody would be a potential partner.· Parents are consumers; but they are also potential partners with teachers.· Only if the potential partner appears credible will the company earn a first meeting with eBay.· Talks are taking place between leaders of the consortium and potential business partners.· There is a further constraint in that the Ministry of Defence will keep a watchful eye on any potential partner or owner.
· Standing by one of the teak-veneered bookshelves was Douglas Ferguson, the senior tax partner.· The senior partners were forced to go hat in hand to Wall Street rival Shearson, which bought them out.· A handful of non-OPP senior partners agreed to lead the work of those teams.· Though Gooch was the senior partner in length of stay, he let Smith and Lamb play the major parts.· And the guerrilla strategy for influencing senior partners never got off the ground.· The plaintiff was the senior partner and the defendant the junior partner.· In this era of lawyer-bashing, he hardly fits the stereotype of the senior partner in a big, big firm.
· Kalchu's trading partner, his i, from Wangri stayed in the house for several days.· Aquitaine, with her valuable wine trade, was a major trading partner.
NOUN· They will go down a storm with my business partners.· They were close personal friends in addition to business partners.· Teams may be outside or cross the conventional boundaries of the business and encompass business partners, suppliers or customers.· As part of the class, they go on company tours and job shadows organized by the business partners.· Through talking to people running nurseries, she met Madeline Watson, now her business partner.· Some of the most enthusiastic business partners have come from high-tech industries.· Guy had been laughing about her, with his business partner?· But what happens when one of the business partners is himself an architect, or has trained as one?
· Labour currently exists as government by grace of two coalition partners.· Netanyahu was able to bring his coalition partners into line to support the Hebron agreement.· However, combined results disguised a collapse of support for the Independent Smallholders' Party, the other government coalition partner.· He and his Revolutionary Council expressed supreme confidence in their ability to stand up to the United States and its coalition partners.· The Labour Party's main coalition partner, the leftist Meretz, supported the move.· Mr Mori's two coalition partners also suffered a setback.· New Aspiration, a prospective coalition partner, was already under public pressure against the inclusion of tainted politicians in the line-up.· The coalition partners predict further elections in six to eight months, and the energy shortage threatens to hamper their reform plans.
· While first-cousins are often favoured as marriage partners, a distinction is very often made between parallel and cross-cousins.· Both marriage partners must be willing.· Then comes the greatest loss of all: that of their marriage partner.· When seeking a marriage partner, intelligence is important to both sexes.· In addition members of the class usually find marriage partners from the same class.· A marriage partner can be a true soul-friend in this sense.· First, it may be difficult for them to relinquish the closeness and identification with their twin in favour of a marriage partner.· Obviously this typology has immense implications for educational methods, for communication generally, and for choice of marriage partner.
VERB· As two opposite kinds of people, when they became partners, their very differences provided the right balance for success.· The latter in the mid-1830s became a partner of his father.· The concern said C.. Scott Hartz, 49 years old, becomes managing partner for the combined practice.· It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York.· The two women become reluctant partners and roommates.· Four of his sons became partners in the Smith banks.· The Church drew ever closer to the State but became a distinctly junior partner.
· It's a good idea to find yourself a partner and practise all these close-in moves.· I am going to play with different players to see if I can find a new partner.· Charlie had not yet been found a ward partner and was still working in the Hall.· Many gay men rejected these connections and found long-term partners, often away from the hubbub of the emerging gay fast lane.· In addition members of the class usually find marriage partners from the same class.· Any Texas prisoner who finds a willing partner on the outside is allowed to be married.· Should a marriage partner be embarrassed or ashamed because he/she finds delight in his/her partner?· If the answer is yes, find another partner.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Imagine two criminals, partners in crime, who are arrested and placed in separate cells with no means of communication.
- Any Texas prisoner who finds a willing partner on the outside is allowed to be married.
- Find yourself a willing partner and sit facing each other.
- For example, a teacher who says that she thinks some of the dolls need bathing will soon have some willing helpers.
- I belong to several organisations, some are small and local who need willing helpers and supporters.
- Non-horsy spouses and relatives can be trained for this role, but they must be willing helpers!
- There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed, but this may not be easy to find.
- Why should he bother, when he had a willing partner waiting back in his rooms?
- You take one pair of ends, your willing helper takes the other, and off you go.
WORD FAMILYnounpartnerpartnershipverbpartner
1marriage etc one of two people who are married, or who live together and have a sexual relationship: Discuss your worries with your partner. Only 29% of lone parents receive financial support from their former partners. a sexual partner► see thesaurus at married2business one of the owners of a business: She’s a partner in a law firm. The senior partner has retired. → sleeping partner3dancing/games etc someone you do a particular activity with, for example dancing or playing a game against two other people: Clare’s my tennis partner. Take your partners for the next dance.4country/organization a country or organization that another country or organization has an agreement with: Nigeria is our principal trading partner in Africa. The group is a junior partner (=less important group) in the PLO’s governing coalition.5partners in crime two people who have planned and done something together, especially something that slightly annoys other people – used humorously → sparring partnerpartner1 nounpartner2 verb
partnerpartner2 verb [transitive] to be someone’s partner in a dance, game etc: I used to partner him in tennis matches.