The members of a business venture created by contract.

Roget 88: accompaniment; adjunct etc. 39; context; appendage, appurtenance.    coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship; partnership, copartnership; coefficiency^†.    concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co-partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege; attribute.    ... show more

Roget 178: concurrence, cooperation, coagency^†; union; agreement etc. 23; consilience^†; consent, coincidence etc. (assent) 488; alliance; concert, additivity, synergy etc. 709; partnership etc. 712.    common cause.    ... show more

Roget 712: party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band.    horde, posse, phalanx; family, clan, etc. 166; team; tong.    council etc. 696.    community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity; confraternity; familistere^†, familistery^†; brotherhood, sisterhood.    knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd; coterie, club, casino^†; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall [U.S.].    corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company; copartnership^†, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock company; cahoot, combine [U.S.], trust.    society, association; institute, institution; union; trades union; league, syndicate, alliance, Verein [G.], Bund [G.], Zollverein [G.], combination; Turnverein [G.]; league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy; junto, cabal, camarilla^†, camorra^†, brigue^†; freemasonry; party spirit etc. (cooperation) 709.    Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar; Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK; Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs &c.. staff; dramatis personae [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 778: participation; cotenancy^†, joint tenancy; occupancy in common, possession in common, tenancy in common; joint stock, common stock; co-partnership, partnership; communion; community of possessions, community of goods; communism, socialism; cooperation etc. 709.    snacks, coportion^†, picnic, hotchpot^†; co-heirship, co-parceny^†, co-parcenary; gavelkind^†.    participator, sharer; co-partner, partner; shareholder; co-tenant, joint tenant; tenants in common; co-heir, co-parcener^†.    communist, socialist.    ... show more

Dutch: partnership

A cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal.

Polish: partnerstwo

A contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses.

Dutch: associatie, maatschap