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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

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Etymology

Origin of joint-venture

First recorded in 1870–75

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Example Sentences

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Thales Alenia Space—a joint venture between Thales and Italy’s Leonardo—last month signed an agreement with French satellite operator Eutelsat to supply payloads—equipment that satellites carry to perform their mission—for 330 low Earth orbit satellites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

And he’s just formed a joint venture with Warner Records called Crime & Punishment Records that will launch in early 2027 with a debut by the gifted newcomer Elle Bramhall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Results in its integrated power division will reflect the contribution from its electricity production joint venture with Energeticky a Prumyslovy Holding, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Sibir's 50% interest in the joint venture had been diluted, or reduced, to less than 1%.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

Volkswagen spent years defending a joint-venture plant in Xinjiang before selling it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

VW CEO Oliver Blume said in April of this year that Volkswagen was considering sharing spare European factory capacity with Chinese joint-venture partners.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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

Ford recently ditched South Korea’s SK Group as its joint-venture partner for battery projects, focusing instead on its plan to build CATL-designed batteries at a $3 billion factory in Michigan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

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