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Partner

noun

A person's partner in marriage. Synonyms: better half, married person, mate, spouse.

An associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest. Synonyms: collaborator, cooperator, pardner. "Sexual partners"

A person who is a member of a partnership.

verb

Provide with a partner.

Act as a partner.

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... the court of Constantinople. In 521, he was named consul, and during the remaining years of the reign of his uncle he continued to exercise great influence. In 527 the Emperor Justin, by the advice of the senate, proclaimed him his partner in the empire. Justin survived this step but four months, and in the same year Justinian was proclaimed sole emperor, and crowned along with his wife, the famous Theodora, whom, despite her more than dubious antecedents as an actress, he had raised to the position as his wife. Justinian on ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 • Various

... exclaimed, 'partner in my paradise, where art thou? Much failing thou wilt not be found, nor much deceived; innocent in any case thou art; but, alas! too surely by this time hapless, and the victim of some diabolic wickedness.' Thus I murmured to myself; thus I ejaculated; ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

... this up all alone out of odds and ends? I tell you, I'd like to be a partner in a business ...

— Ralph on the Engine - The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail • Allen Chapman

... duty of the Historian. Six weeks afterwards, in the Church of Notre Dame, some one was singing the Te Deum in honor of the treason of December—thus making God a partner in a crime. ...

— The History of a Crime - The Testimony of an Eye-Witness • Victor Hugo

... the old Virginia places in that way. We are going to arrange to hold that for you and my sister, and we thought that perhaps in time something could be worked out of the rest of the property in the same way. That is, unless Colonel Meriwether, your father's partner, shall offer some better solution. I suppose you ...

— The Way of a Man • Emerson Hough

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