What's the difference between cahoot and partnership?
Cahoot
Definition:
(n.) Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person.
Example Sentences:
(1) They prey on the population, kidnapping and extorting in cahoots with criminal gangs, according to multiple complaints filed to the human rights commission.
(2) One covers Abbey, Bradford & Bingley and Cahoot; the other covers Alliance & Leicester.
(3) Questions remain, but the outlines of what Draghi will unveil have been carefully and skilfully briefed ahead of the disclosures in sessions at the European parliament, private briefings to journalists, and speeches, most notably from Jörg Asmussen, the German on the six-strong ECB executive who is said to have drafted the policy in cahoots with his French colleague.
(4) The press and the government are in cahoots, he explains, to oppress white people.
(5) And British forces have carried out plenty of beatings and torture in Afghanistan and Iraq themselves, either on their own or in cahoots with US and local forces , as multiple reports and inquiries have now made clear.
(6) During his refusal to step aside amid the February coup attempt, Giles claimed unnamed senior police officers and “alleged politicians” had plotted “in cahoots” to remove him and police commissioner John McRoberts from their respective offices.
(7) The two men suspect the police and Abu Hamada were in cahoots.
(8) I took some acclimatising to the double act In Cahoots , whose show opens at an inhospitable pitch of self-assertion, without the consistent material to back it up.
(9) And what to say about his other eye-catching venture – the cable car over the Thames in east London, run in cahoots with Emirates airline.
(10) As journalists struggle to make charges stick, they are running the risk of simply entrenching an image of Ukip in the minds of voters as a populist outsider fighting a homogeneous political elite who are in cahoots to undermine the "silent majority".
(11) Santander will retain the Cahoot name and the products will attract separate rates and charges.
(12) The new group, which has attracted 25 Syriza MPs, accused Tsipras of acting in cahoots with foreign lenders with the sole aim of purging dissidents and clearing up the political landscape.
(13) Bird kept repeating that his twin brother, David, and solicitor Kevin Commons, 60, were "in cahoots" against him.
(14) Isis, the PKK [Kurdistan Workers party], the spies of Assad – they are all in cahoots but will get swept away,” says Ahmet, echoing Erdogan’s implausible allegation that all these groups cooperated in the recent Ankara suicide bomb attack, the deadliest terrorist strike in Turkey’s history.
(15) He has hit back with the same argument he has used about a string of legal investigations that have dogged him since 2012: that he is innocent of any wrongdoing and that he is the victim of a plot against him by political enemies in cahoots with the justice system.
(16) He is probably part Muppet, so it would make sense that he's in cahoots with the robots.
(17) While questions still need to be answered about political interference (what some call “co-ordination”, I’d call “in cahoots”), the actual letter can be dismissed for what it was – a cynical attack on public intelligence.
(18) Again, according to which conspiracy you favour, those same Islamists – be they Muslim Brotherhood or ultra-conservative Salafis – are either in cahoots with the junta in an attempt to guarantee their own slice of power, or as hapless as the rest of us trying to end military rule.
(19) Oliver Stone's JFK , for instance, flat-out invented a case to support the view that John F Kennedy was murdered by the CIA in cahoots with Cuban exile organisations.
(20) There is a very real danger that the conduct of a parallel inquiry in the terms advised would compromise both current and future prosecution action.” Giles and Chandler said the government also considered the commission’s inquiry was “sufficiently robust to not require a judicial inquiry.” Last month Giles apologised to the NT police force for remarks he made in the fallout of an attempted challenge to his leadership, which alleged unnamed senior police officers and “alleged politicians” had plotted “in cahoots” to remove him and McRoberts from their respective commissions, but the NT Police Association labelled the apology “half-hearted”.
Partnership
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) A division or sharing among partners; joint possession or interest.
(n.) An alliance or association of persons for the prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership.
(n.) A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure.
(n.) See Fellowship, n., 6.
Example Sentences:
(1) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(2) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(3) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
(4) As shown in Rethinking School Feeding , a joint analysis conducted by the World Bank , World Food Programme and Partnership for Child Development , hunger restricts education.
(5) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
(6) Today, three years after the 2012 London summit, our partnership is stronger than ever.
(7) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(8) A parent who took his anti-Page 3 campaign to Legoland and Wapping is claiming victory after the Danish toymaker announced the end of its two-year partnership with the Sun.
(9) The government's civil partnership bill to sanction same-sex unions was thrown into confusion last night after a cross-party coalition of peers and bishops voted to extend the bill's benefits to a wide range of people who live together in a caring family relationship.
(10) I'm having a civil partnership ceremony in six weeks and don't know whether to invite my mum.
(11) The central bank is coordinating 10 banks that are piloting the scheme in partnership with approved, legally-registered NGOs working on financial exclusion of children.
(12) Ahmed has been offered a scholarship to take him through high school and university by the Qatar Foundation, a public-private education partnership in the Middle Eastern state.
(13) In October, Amazon announces a digital partnership with DC Comics, prompting Barnes & Noble to remove its comic books from its shelves.
(14) We are not back to the Cold War but we are far from a strategic partnership,” he said.
(15) "We are enormously grateful that the Komen Foundation has clarified its grantmaking criteria, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Komen partners, leaders and volunteers.
(16) Few of the partnerships always practised safe sexual techniques, even after a partner was known to be positive for HIV.
(17) "[The partnership] would take account of things they are very good at and the things that we are good at and put them together in a new venture," Smith told peers.
(18) Putin has been re-elected by a large majority, so France, and her European partners will pursue its partnership with Russia."
(19) We write to deplore the coalition's withdrawal of support from the hugely successful school sport partnerships (" Michael Gove's plan to slash sports funding in schools splits cabinet ", News).
(20) David McMillen QC said in court on Thursday: “Northern Ireland stands out as effectively a blot on the map … It’s nothing less than state discrimination of a class of people who have been marginalised for many years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Henry Kane (right) and Chris Flanagan celebrate their civil partnership in Belfast in December 2005.