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# partnership

«partnership» in Mova's school dictionary: **Working together with someone as partners to do…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a partnership, partnerships)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Working together with someone as partners to do something: «The school works in partnership with the zoo». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partnership/#m1)

2) A business owned and run by two or more partners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partnership/#m2)

3) A pair or team who work or play well together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partnership/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school: partner work, a reading partnership, and schools in partnership with libraries or charities. In sport: a batting partnership in cricket counts the runs scored by two batters together. In maths word problems about business, partners may share profits. Phrases: «in partnership with», «form a partnership», «a good partnership».

### examples

- Our school has a partnership with the local library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partnership/#x1)
- The two friends formed a great partnership in the science fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partnership/#x2)
- In cricket, their partnership scored fifty runs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partnership/#x3)
- The shop is a partnership between two sisters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partnership/#x4)
- Working in partnership helps us finish faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partnership/#x5)
- The zoo and the school worked in partnership to save the frogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partnership/#x6)
- An Ass and a Fox went into partnership and sallied out to forage for food together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partnership/#x7)

### note

Countable. From partner + -ship (like friendship). Partners usually share the work and the profits.

### In the corpora

- [Influencers are often paid to praise products; look for #ad, «sponsored» or «paid partnership».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «partnership» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partnership/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.