| Main Entry: | partnership |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alliance; participation |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, assistance, association, band, body, brotherhood, business, cahoots, cartel, chumminess, clique, club, combination, combine, community, companionship, company, conglomerate, conjunction, connection, consociation, cooperation, cooperative, corporation, coterie, crew, faction, firm, fraternity, friendship, gang, help, hookup, house, interest, joining, lodge, mob, organization, ownership, party, ring, sharing, sisterhood, society, sorority, tie-up, togetherness, union |
| Notes: | a corporation is the name used in the United States for a business association established by one or more people who later sell shares in the corporation to investors; in a partnership, there are one or more owners who share jointly in the profits, liability |
| Main Entry: | affiliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association with an organization |
Synonyms: |
alliance, amalgamation, banding together, bunch, cahoots, clan, coalition, combination, confederation, conjunction, connection, crew, crowd, gang, hookup, incorporation, joining, league, merging, mob, outfit, partnership, relationship, ring, syndicate, tie-in, union |
| Main Entry: | alliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendly association, agreement |
Synonyms: |
accord, affiliation, affinity, betrothal, bond, coalition, coherence, collaboration, collusion, combination, communion, compact, concord, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, fraternization, friendship, interrelation, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, mutuality, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union |
Antonyms: |
antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war |
| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group with common interest or pursuit |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, alliance, band, bunch, circle, clan, clique, club, coalition, combination, combo, company, confederacy, confederation, congress, cooperative, corporation, crew, crowd, family, federation, fellowship, fraternity, gang, guild, hookup, league, mob, order, organization, outfit, partnership, pool, rat pack, ring, society, sodality, sorority, syndicate, tie-in, tie-up, tribe, troops, troupe, union, zoo |
| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, acquaintanceship, affiliation, agreement, assistance, camaraderie, companionship, comradeship, conjunction, cooperation, familiarity, fellowship, fraternization, frequenting, friendliness, hookup, intimacy, membership, participation, partnership, relation, relationship |
Antonyms: |
aloneness, antagonism, disunion, isolation, opposition, rivalry, seclusion, separation, solitude |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | company, enterprise |
Synonyms: |
Mom and Pop, cartel, concern, corporation, establishment, factory, firm, fly-by-night operation, house, institution, market, megacorp, mill, monopoly, organization, outfit, partnership, setup, shoestring operation, shop, store, syndicate, trust, venture |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | cahoots |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conspiracy |
Synonyms: |
alliance, collusion, league, partnership |
| Main Entry: | collaboration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cooperation |
Synonyms: |
alliance, association, collusion, combination, concert, fraternization, joint effort, participation, partnership, teamwork, working together |
Antonyms: |
noncooperation |
| Main Entry: | combination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alliance, association |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, bloc, cabal, cahoots, camarilla, cartel, circle, clique, club, coadunation, coalition, combine, compound, confederacy, confederation, conjunction, connection, consolidation, consortium, conspiracy, coterie, faction, federation, gang, guild, hookup, mafia, melding, mergence, merger, merging, partnership, party, pool, ring, set, syndicate, tie-up, trust, unification, union |
Antonyms: |
dissolution, disunion, separation, severance |
| Main Entry: | company |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business concern |
Synonyms: |
association, business, concern, corporation, enterprise, establishment, firm, house, megacorp, multinational, outfit, partnership, syndicate |