copartnership

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a partnership in which employees get a share of the profits in addition to their wages

From copartner + -ship or co- + partnership.

In these suspicions Tennessee's Partner was equally compromised; his continued intimacy with Tennessee after the affair above quoted could only be accounted for on the hypothesis of a copartnership of crime. — Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools: Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists, Unknown
He described his separation from Fathom, their meeting at London, the traffic they carried on in copartnership; and the misfortune that reduced Ferdinand to the condition in which he was found by Melvil. — The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete, T. (Tobias) Smollett
Such is the glorious copartnership that shall tear down the distilleries and brewhouses, uproot the vineyards, shatter the cider-presses, ruin the tea and coffee trade, and finally monopolize the whole business of quenching thirst. — Twice-told tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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