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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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Reuters last month agreed to sell control of its global legal print business to KKR for roughly $500 million and a 49% interest in a joint venture it is forming with the investment firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The organisation is a joint venture between the US pharma giant MSD -- known as Merck in North America -- and the British charity Wellcome Trust.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

In April, the firm said it would start making cruise missiles for the first time as part of a joint venture with Dutch defence firm Destinus.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The joint venture will lease from KOC the usage rights to all of its 13 pipelines, which span roughly 200 miles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

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

The government said the volume corresponds to less than 3% of new car sales currently in Canada, and it expects the deal to catalyze considerable new Chinese joint-venture investment in Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Outside of oil, China has at least one known joint-venture deal called Arco Minero, but given Venezuela as-is now, I’d say they can have it.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 8, 2026