1 N‑COUNT [oft poss N ] Your partner is the person you are married to or are having a romantic or sexual relationship with. □ Wanting other friends doesn't mean you don't love your partner. □ …his choice of marriage partner.
2 N‑COUNT Your partner is the person you are doing something with, for example dancing with or playing with in a game against two other people. □ My partner for the event was the marvellous American player. □ …a partner in crime.
3 N‑COUNT The partners in a firm or business are the people who share the ownership of it. [BUSINESS ] □ [+ in ] He's a partner in a Chicago law firm.
4 N‑COUNT The partner of a country or organization is another country or organization with which they work or do business. □ Spain has been one of the country's major trading partners.
5 VERB If you partner someone, you are their partner in a game or in a dance. □ [V n] He had partnered the famous Russian ballerina. □ [be V -ed + by/with ] He will be partnered by the defending champion. □ [V n + to ] She partnered him to a 6-1 first-set success. COLLOCATIONS partner NOUN
1
noun + partner : marriage
adjective + partner : civil, sexual; ideal, perfect, potential; former, long-term
verb + partner : find, seek
3
noun + partner : business
adjective + partner : junior, managing, senior; equal, full
part|ner|ship ◆◇◇ /pɑː r tnə r ʃ I p/ (partnerships ) N‑VAR Partnership or a partnership is a relationship in which two or more people, organizations, or countries work together as partners. □ [+ between ] …the partnership between Germany's banks and its businesses. COLLOCATIONS partnership NOUN
adjective + partnership : close, effective, solid, successful; joint, public-private, strategic
verb + partnership : create, develop, forge, form SYNONYMS partnership NOUN
cooperation: A deal with Japan could open the door to economic cooperation with East Asia.
association: …the company's six-year association with retailer J.C. Penney Co.
alliance: The two parties were still too much apart to form an alliance.
pa rt of spee ch (parts of speech ) N‑COUNT A part of speech is a particular grammatical class of word, for example noun, adjective, or verb.
par|took /pɑː r tʊ k/ Partook is the past tense of partake .
par|tridge /pɑː r tr I dʒ/ (partridges ) N‑COUNT A partridge is a wild bird with brown feathers, a round body, and a short tail. ● N‑UNCOUNT Partridge is the flesh of this bird eaten as food. □ …a main course of partridge.
pa rt-ti me The adverb is also spelled part time . ADJ If someone is a part-time worker or has a part-time job, they work for only part of each day or week. □ Many businesses are cutting back by employing lower-paid part-time workers. □ I'm part-time. I work three days a week. ● ADV [ADV after v] Part-time is also an adverb. □ I want to work part-time.
pa rt-ti mer (part-timers ) N‑COUNT A part-timer is a person who works part-time. □ Customer service departments are often staffed by part-timers.
pa rt wa y also part-way ADV [ADV after v] Part way means part of the way or partly. □ Local authorities will run out of money part way through the financial year. □ She was on the hillside, part way up. □ It might go part way to repaying the debt.
par|ty ◆◆◆ /pɑː r ti/ (parties , partying , partied )
1 N‑COUNT A party is a political organization whose members have similar aims and beliefs. Usually the organization tries to get its members elected to the government of a country. □ …a member of the Labour party. □ …India's ruling party. □ …opposition parties. □ …her resignation as party leader.
2 N‑COUNT A party is a social event, often in someone's home, at which people enjoy themselves doing things such as eating, drinking, dancing, talking, or playing games. □ The couple met at a party. □ We threw a huge birthday party. □ Most teenagers like to go to parties.
3 → see also dinner party , garden party , hen party , stag party
4 VERB If you party , you enjoy yourself doing things such as going out to parties, drinking, dancing, and talking to people. □ [V ] They come to eat and drink, to swim, to party. Sometimes they never go to bed.
5 N‑COUNT A party of people is a group of people who are doing something together, for example travelling together. □ They became separated from their party. □ [+ of ] …a party of sightseers.
6 → see also search party , working party
7 N‑COUNT One of the people involved in a legal agreement or dispute can be referred to as a particular party . [LEGAL ] □ It has to be proved that they are the guilty party.
8 → see also third party
9 PHRASE Someone who is a party to or is party to an action or agreement is involved in it, and therefore partly responsible for it. □ Crook had resigned his post rather than be party to such treachery. SYNONYMS party NOUN 2