business partners
Commercial alliance members
Business partners are people or entities who share ownership, investment, or responsibility in a commercial venture.
The term covers formal legal arrangements—partners in a law firm, co-owners of a restaurant—and looser collaborative relationships between companies: Our business partners in Asia handle distribution.
The phrase sometimes serves as a euphemism for romantic partners, particularly in professional contexts where someone wants to acknowledge a relationship without specifying its nature.
- colleagueProfessional associate
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- allySupportive partner
- co-founderJoint venture originator
- corner officePremium workplace for leadership
counterpart · associate · in bed with · joint venture · alliance · shareholder · minority stake · fiduciary duties · cooperation · stakeholder · profit sharing · investor · synergy · strategic alliance · equal footing · trust · skin in the game · rapport
- collaborationscollaborators, joint task force, joint project, duo, coalition forces
- partnersassociates, collaborators, colleagues, co-workers, coworkers
- entitiesentity, being, object, thing, item
- collaboratorscoauthors, cowriters, coworker, co-directors, co-producers
- couplescouple, married couple, married couples, pair, twosome
- duosSonny and Cher, The Everly Brothers, Lennon and McCartney, The Righteous Brothers, Righteous Brothers
business partnerssole proprietor
Single owner of business
lone wolf · solopreneur · one-person shop · single owner · freelancer
business partnerscompetitors
Those seeking same goal
adversaries · opponents · corporate raiders · antagonists · litigants
business, partner, businesses, partners, busily, busyness, businesslike, businessman, businesswoman