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expartner en · NOUN

Etymology

From ex- + partner.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ex-partner.
   alt of ex-partner
   • One expartner cannot, therefore, indorse in the name of the firm a bill which belonged to the firm, but all must join, though the expartner indorsing have authority to settle the partnership affairs. 1867, Sir John Barnard Byles, George Sharswood, A Treatise of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-Notes and Checks:
   • Decide whether your child is important enough to you to avoid making him as just another means of waging war with your expartner. 1991, Joe D. Batten, Wendy Havemann, Bill Pearce, Tough-Minded Parenting, →ISBN, page 160:
   • Avoid using your children as pawns in any disagreements or legal battles you might have with your expartner. 2000, Robert Abrams, Walter T. Burke, Timothy E. Casserly, Boomer Basics, →ISBN:
   • Thirty percent of female homicides in 1996 were committed by partners or expartners. 2003, Robert B. Taylor, A.K. David, D.M. Phillips, Fundamentals of Family Medicine: The Family Medicine Clerkship Textbook, →ISBN:

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