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part·ner1
noun
1.
either of a pair of people engaged together in the same activity.
"arrange the children in pairs so that each person has a partner"
2.
either member of a married couple or of an established unmarried couple.
"she lived with her partner"
verb
be the partner of.
"young farmers who partnered Isabel to the village dance"