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• joint venture
  joint venture

  noun

  a business enterprise in which two or more companies enter a temporary partnership. JV, J.V.
• joint-venture
  joint-venture

  verb (used without object)

  to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.

joint venture

¹ American  

noun

• joint ventures
  plural

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

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joint-venture ² American  

[joint-ven-cher] / ˈdʒɔɪntˈvɛn tʃər /

verb (used without object)

joint-ventured, joint-venturing

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

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verb (used with object)

joint-ventured, joint-venturing

1. to establish or run as a joint venture.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• joint venturer
  noun
• joint venturing
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• joint ventures
  plural

Etymology

Origin of joint-venture

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

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Merck left open the possibility of entering into a full joint venture to develop the vaccine together after seeing the results of that study.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Adura, a joint venture formed by the merger of UK offshore operations of Britain's Shell and Norway's Equinor, is the sole owner of Jackdaw and majority owner of Rosebank.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Barrick Mining settled a dispute with Newmont over a Nevada joint venture, securing a $1.95 billion payout and paving the way for a spinoff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Bloomberg on Monday reported that Cohen is now “considering proposing a partnership or joint venture that would enable eBay to leverage GameStop’s roughly 1,600 U.S. retail locations.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

When the goods are sold or the project is finished, the joint venture ends.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

FICO’s main competition in mortgage scoring is the VantageScore, a joint-venture of credit bureaus Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian.

From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026

Renault said it would acquire Volvo AB’s 45% stake and CMA-CGM’s 10% stake in electric-van joint-venture Flexis for an undisclosed sum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Intel investors have been reacting positively to its recent announcement of a change to a joint-venture arrangement — and another a similar catalyst may be on the horizon.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

Within three years the agreement will “drive considerable new Chinese joint-venture investment in Canada with trusted partners to protect and create new auto manufacturing careers for Canadian workers,” it said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Outside of oil, China has at least one known joint-venture deal called Arco Minero, but given Venezuela as-is now, I’d say they can have it.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 8, 2026