partnering

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The forming of a partnership between two or more people, companies, or organizations.

   The partnering of the two firms created the region's largest logistics network.

   Effective partnering requires aligned incentives and transparent communication between the parties.

   Similarcollaboration, cooperation, alliance

   Note

   A process word that can also be counted. Beside effective partnering in business, it takes a plural for separate pairings. Pamela Leong's Therapeutic Religion (2008) writes of promiscuity and "multiple partnerings," where the bond is sexual rather than commercial. That range comes from partner itself, which covers spouses and lovers as well as business associates. Context decides which kind of partnership is meant.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of partner.

   The company is partnering with a local charity for the relief effort.

   Researchers are partnering across several universities to share their data.

   Note

   The -ing form of a verb that works two ways. Most often it is intransitive and takes with: a company partnering with a charity, researchers partnering across universities. It can also be transitive, meaning to join someone as a partner, as in partnering a newcomer with a mentor. The gerund keeps these verbal habits. The noun for forming a partnership does not, and only the noun has a plural, partnerings.

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