What's the difference between partnership and relationship?

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.

Relationship


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cellulase regulation appears to depend upon a complex relationship involving catabolite repression, inhibition, and induction.
  • (2) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
  • (3) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
  • (4) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
  • (5) The observed relationship between prorenin and renin substrate concentrations might be a consequence of their regulation by common factors.
  • (6) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
  • (7) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
  • (8) A definite relationship between intelligence level and the type of muscle disease was found.
  • (9) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
  • (10) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
  • (11) To investigate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) intolerance and the effect of gold use on the seroprevalence of H. pylori.
  • (12) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
  • (13) A topographic relationship was recognized between the MM and the anterior thalamic nuclei.
  • (14) A J-shaped relationship with a dip at the middle SBP (140-149 mmHg) was recognized between treated SBP and CVD.
  • (15) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (16) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
  • (17) Comparison if single injections of MSB and atropine in normal subjects also demonstrated a more reliable dose-response relationship with MSB.
  • (18) Obesity in the Pimas is familial and has complex relationships with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a common disease in this population.
  • (19) Reasonably good agreement is seen between theoretical apparent rate-vesicle concentration relationships and those measured experimentally.
  • (20) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.