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general partnership

American  

noun

  1. a partnership in which each of the partners is fully liable for the firm's debts.


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While Blue Owl has emphasized its private-credit business in recent years, it also has two other businesses in real assets and in general partnership stakes, where it buys minority equity stakes in money managers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“The ministry has no record of a registration under the Business Names Act for a corporation or general partnership with the name ‘Interleave, Inc,’ ” the organization told me.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2025

When a DAO comes into contact with general partnership law, something bad happens.

From The Verge • Feb. 22, 2022

The majority owner of Brooks Crossing, through a trust and general partnership, is Alon Ossip, a private equity executive living in Canada, according to Eisenberg’s deposition.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2022

The Bellmore brothers, as they were now called— Dave and Benjamin—purchased the Molick ranch and it was added to the Carson holdings under a general partnership agreement.

From Cowboy Dave by Webster, Frank V.