partner
US /ˈpɑrtnɚ/
Definition
a person's partner in marriage
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
Our company signed an agreement with a new business partner in Vietnam.
Word Family
Synonyms
- associatea partner or colleague in business or at work
- collaboratorsomeone who assists in a plot
- allya friendly nation
Collocations
- Easy tennis partner on the courtdescribing tennis partner on the court (a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court)
- Medium trusted commercial business partnerto trusted commercial business partner, meaning to have confidence or faith in
- Hard senior equity partner at the law firmdescribing senior equity partner at the law firm (an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation)
- Very Hard equal partner in strategic governanceto equal partner in strategic governance, meaning to be identical or equivalent to
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