copartnership
Britishnoun
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a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
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a form of industrial democracy in which the employees of an organization are partners in the company and share in part of its profits
Example Sentences
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Last one to sign the articles of copartnership was Charles Denston Dickey two years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gatti's first year was in a vague sort of copartnership with Andreas Dippel, who directed the German operas.
From Time Magazine Archive
I acquired a half-interest in a copartnership and became the largest stockholder in a corporation . . . both interested in state and interstate commerce.
From Time Magazine Archive
These three together, a precious copartnership, seduced into their firm a young officer of ours, who entitles himself aide-de-camp to the President of the United States.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie
A brother of his, at first in copartnership with Mr. Allan, and at a later period, independently, had made money, at York, by business.
From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry
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