Noun
The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.
A division or sharing among partners; joint possession or interest.
An alliance or association of persons for the prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership.
A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure.
See Fellowship, n., 6.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFriendship is essentially a partnership. Aristotle
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. Ann Landers
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. John Updike
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to. Susie Bright
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. Robert G. Ingersoll
Partnership is an invention of the devil. Russian Proverb