partner

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partner
ˈpɑːtnə Listen
Meanings
noun
  • either of a pair of people engaged together in the same activity.
    E.g. arrange the children in pairs so that each person has a partner
  • either member of a married couple or of an established unmarried couple.
    E.g. she lived with her partner
  • a friendly form of address by one man to another.
    E.g. how you doing, partner?
verb
  • be the partner of.
    E.g. young farmers who partnered Isabel to the village dance
noun
  • a timber framework secured to and strengthening the deck of a wooden ship around a hole through which a mast, capstan, pump, etc. pass.
    E.g. the mast was not chocked at the partners as it should have been

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