v. [CO- 1.] To venture together (with); to share in a venture. So Coadventure sb., a joint adventure; Co-adventurer.
1642. Howell, For. Trav., vii. (Arb.), 40. To co-adventure and put in his Stake with the Marchant. Ibid. (c. 1645), Lett. (1650), I. 395. A worthy Captain … who was a co-adventurer in that expedition.
1847. C. G. Addison, Contracts, I. i. (1883), 103. Shareholders in mining companies carried on on the cost-book principle are co-adventurers together. Ibid., II. vi. (1883), 830. The number of subscribers, or co-adjutors, or co-adventurers in the project.
1864. Webster, Coadventure, an adventure in which two or more are sharers.
