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limited partnership

American  

noun

  1. a partnership formed by at least one general partner and at least one special partner.


Etymology

Origin of limited partnership

First recorded in 1905–10

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Founder Liang Wenfeng invested around $3 billion and retained control via a limited partnership and a five-year investor lock-in.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Investors who gave up on energy infrastructure after the master limited partnership sector crashed in 2020 have good reason to take another look.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

Juggernaut Fund LP is the private limited partnership through which Druckenmiller manages his personal $11 billion fortune.

From MarketWatch May 7, 2026

The donation, in the form of limited partnership units in Stone Ridge, was gifted in 2017 to help the university create a finance innovation centre.

From BBC Dec. 7, 2023

Gautier & Sons, of Jersey City, to organize a limited partnership association under the name of "The Gautier Steel Company, Limited," to manufacture, at Johnstown, wire and various other forms of merchant steel.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker

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