joint venture

¹

noun

1. a business enterprise in which two or more companies enter a temporary partnership. : JV, J.V.

joint-venture

²

[ joint-ven-cher ]

verb (used without object)

, joint-ven·tured, joint-ven·tur·ing.

1. to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.

verb (used with object)

, joint-ven·tured, joint-ven·tur·ing.

1. to establish or run as a joint venture.

Other Words From

• joint venturer noun
• joint venturing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of joint venture¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

Back in 2015, she signed a joint venture with Quality Control Music, an influential hip-hop label based in Atlanta, leading to a string of megahits from hot young artists including the Migos, Lil Yachty and Lil Baby.

From Time

He described Crossbeam as a joint venture between CoVenture, Moelis Asset Management and Fenway Summer, with CoVenture offering additional debt funding to Crossbeam’s equity investments when it makes sense.

From TechCrunch

Haven, the nonprofit joint venture of the three companies, will end all operations this coming February, after three short years of operation.

From Quartz

On Monday, the joint venture known as Haven announced plans to shut down after falling short of its ambitions.

From Fortune

The BE-4 would also power the new rocket being designed by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

From Washington Post

The joint venture entails Corgenix migrating the rapid diagnostic tests into a handheld device designed by Nanomix.

From The Daily Beast

Elsewhere in the same issue, Phillips and Neal celebrated their new Stars, Inc. joint venture with photos of their growing roster.

From The Daily Beast

The In Amenas field is a joint venture of the Algerian national oil company Sonatrach, BP, and Statoil.

From The Daily Beast

Prepping for their joint venture, the siblings seem amazingly cool about their orbital road trip.

From The Daily Beast

In December, Comcast inked a $37 billion deal with General Electric to form a joint venture to run NBCU.

From The Daily Beast

I developed an idea, being in Yugoslavia, of forming a joint venture to use Yugoslav workers and American equipment.

From Project Gutenberg

If only Tuppence could have been at his side to share in the triumphant conclusion of their joint venture!

From Project Gutenberg

This was in the nature, as near as you can recall, of a joint venture of some kind?

From Project Gutenberg

He sat for an hour or so in a snug little parlor, talking over their joint venture and describing all that had been done.

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