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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Scots law, a contract of copartnership.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare the state of being copartners in any undertaking.

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  • noun The state of being copartners in any undertaking.

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Examples

  • In fact, he even didn't think they should exist: The directors of such ... companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own....

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street RJ 2011

  • In fact, he even didn't think they should exist: The directors of such ... companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own....

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street RJ 2011

  • In fact, he even didn't think they should exist: The directors of such ... companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own....

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street RJ 2011

  • In fact, he even didn't think they should exist: The directors of such ... companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own....

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street RJ 2011

  • You will see, by this day's Edinburgh papers, that the copartnery of John Ballantyne & Co. is formally dissolved.

    A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911

  • First, it ought to appear with the clearest evidence, that the undertaking is of greater and more general utility than the greater part of common trades; and secondly, that it requires a greater capital than can easily be collected into a private copartnery.

    I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth 1909

  • But the constitution of joint stock companies renders them in general more tenacious of established rules than any private copartnery.

    I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth 1909

  • But a public bank which is to support public credit, and upon particular emergencies to advance to government the whole produce of a tax, to the amount, perhaps, of several millions, a year or two before it comes in, requires a greater capital than can easily be collected into any private copartnery.

    I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth 1909

  • Local color and local pride, with one thing and another in the way of special incitement or inhibition, may come in to vary the run of things, or to blur or hinder a common understanding and mutual furtherance and copartnery in these matters of taste and intellect.

    An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Thorstein Veblen 1893

  • Of course, on any one of these slightly diversified plans of keeping the peace on a stable footing of copartnery among the pacific nations, national jealousies and national integrity no longer have any substantial meaning.

    An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Thorstein Veblen 1893

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