[f. COPARTNER + -Y: cf. coparcenary.]

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  1.  = COPARTNERSHIP 1.

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1777.  Robertson, Hist. Amer., I. II. 159. Roderigo de Bastidas fitted out two ships in co-partnery with John de la Cosa.

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1816.  Scott, Antiq., xli. Having been of late taken into copartnery … by Mr. Gilbert Greenhorn.

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1828.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. (1863), 519. That more important and durable co-partnery—marriage.

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1862.  Act 25–26 Vict., c. 89 § 183. Any … contract of copartnery … or other instrument constituting or regulating the company.

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  2.  = COPARTNERSHIP 2.

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1733.  P. Lindsay, Interest Scot., 191. The Copartnery were obliged to break up, and give it over.

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1796.  Hull Advertiser, 9 April, 3/1. One copartnery salted about 7000 [herrings].

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1880.  Muirhead, Gaius, III. § 151. A co-partnery continues as long as the partners are of the same mind.

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1890.  Spectator, 29 March, 438/1. The best thing he can do is to form his own little copartnery against all the ills of the world.

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