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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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The new joint venture was called Manchester Life and, over a decade, it had a plan to build more than 6,000 new homes through investment of up to £1bn.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

The company has agreed to form a joint venture with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to produce next-generation image sensors for smartphones, with the companies planning to invest a combined $4.7 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Musk wants to expand the data centers, and build a giant AI chip plant outside College Station, Texas, called Terafab, in a joint venture with Tesla.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

VMO2's had attempted to respond to this growing threat by buying altnet competitor Netomnia for £2bn via nexfibre, a joint venture owned by VMO2's owners.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

The lower sales were primarily driven by the conversion of Starbucks sites in China to a licensed joint-venture model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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

Renault said it would acquire Volvo AB’s 45% stake and CMA-CGM’s 10% stake in electric-van joint-venture Flexis for an undisclosed sum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 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

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