PARTNER, PARTNERSHIP (business)
NOUNS
► CAHOOT a company, or partnership → 19C US
► NEIPERTY partnership → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► COPEMATE ► COPESMATE a partner or colleague in power, office, etc.; an associate, a companion, a comrade → 1581 obs.
► DEALSMAN a partner, a sharer → 1563 Sc. obs.
► HALFER ► HALVER one who halves; one who has a half share in anything; a partner → 1625 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HELPFELLOW a companion who renders help; a helper; a colleague; a partner or associate → 1549 obs.
► ON-MARROW a sharer in a joint concern, a partner → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► PARCENER one who shares or has a part in something with another or others; a partner; a sharer, a partaker → 1297 obs.
► PODNA ► PODNER a partner, esp. as a term of address → L18 US sl.
► SIDEKICK an assistant, a partner, an accomplice → 20C Aust. & US sl.
► SIDEKICKER an assistant; a partner; an accomplice → 1900s Aust. & US sl.
► TANG-O’-THE-TRUMP the active partner in a firm; the principal person in any popular outburst → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► YOCKFELLOW ► YOKEFELLOW a person ‘yoked’ or associated with another, esp. in some work or occupation; a fellow-worker; an associate or partner, esp. in a task → 1526
► YOKE-MATE a person ‘yoked’ or associated with another, esp. in some work or occupation; a fellow-worker; an associate or partner, esp. in a task → 1567
► YUK a companion; a partner; a friend; a buddy; one who can be depended upon or used → 1934 sl.
VERBS
► CAHOOT to act in partnership → 1857 US
► HALVER to divide into equal shares; to have; to possess in partnership with anyone → 1871 Sc.
► HITCH UP to become partners → 1830 Amer. sl.
► JOIN GIBLETS to go halves, to go into partnership → 19C Eng. dial.
► MARROW to be a partner or fellow-worker → 1538 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► NEIGHBOUR to work together, to cooperate; to act as partners → 1872 Sc.