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Partner

One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a wife. (b) Either one of a couple who dance together. (c) One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business.

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Broader term 13

Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Associate 76% connected

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Relation 76% connected

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

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Relative 76% connected

Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Bigamist 76% connected

One who is guilty of bigamy.

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Consort 76% connected

One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.

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Copartner 76% connected

One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer.

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Helpmate 76% connected

A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.

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Helpmeet 76% connected

A wife; a helpmate.

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Hubby 76% connected

Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.

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Husband 76% connected

The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.

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Monogamist 76% connected

One who practices or upholds monogamy.

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Polygamist 76% connected

One who practices polygamy, or maintains its lawfulness.

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Wife 76% connected

A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.

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Partnership 74% connected

The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.

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Partnership 74% connected

The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.

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Containing group 2

Marriage 70% connected

The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.

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Partnership 70% connected

The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.

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Synonym 4

Collaborator 92% connected

An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.

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Cooperator 92% connected

One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mate 92% connected

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…

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Spouse 92% connected

A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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