partnership

nouns

the members of a business venture created by contract
is derived from
is derived from
is a type of (narrower)
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
"he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern"
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"
is a type of (narrower)
a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)
"the relationship between mothers and their children"
a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses
is derived from
is derived from
is a type of (narrower)
a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law