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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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Tower entered into a joint venture with Panasonic Semiconductor in 2014, giving the group a foothold in the Japanese market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Alcoa does not expect its participation in the joint venture to have a material impact on its financial position or results of operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Adura is a joint venture between UK energy giant Shell and Norwegian firm Equinor.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Separately, TeraWulf said it would sell its majority stake in a joint venture developing a data-center complex in Abernathy, Texas, to a group led by its partner, the neocloud startup Fluidstack.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

Under the arrangement, Stellantis will co-manufacture two all-new Peugeot vehicles with Dongfeng at a joint-venture factory in Wuhan, China.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

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

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

However, Berkeley said it would continue to make land acquisitions through joint-venture arrangements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Some German officials say they might even support requirements for Chinese direct investors in Europe to share their intellectual property with local joint-venture partners—a rule that applied for decades to foreign manufacturers in China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026