relationship
Other forms: relationships
When you're in a relationship, you're emotionally involved or at least connected in some way. If you're related to somebody — your parents, your aunts and uncles, your cousins — you share a family relationship with them.
You can also use relationship to describe dealings between various groups, as “Members of the European Union have a relationship of economic interconnectedness,” or “A lease helps define your relationship with your landlord.” You'll also see relationship used with interactions that don't directly involve people. In many of these cases, the word relation is better. For example, in the sentence "We are always looking at the relationship between ticket price and sales," it would be better to use relation.
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a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)“the relationship between mothers and their children”synonyms: human relationshiptypes:partnershipa cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goalbondinga close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child)type of:relationan abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
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a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)“he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship”
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a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countriestypes:account, business relationshipa formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business servicesassimilationthe state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national familymembershipthe state of being a memberbrokerage accounta fund that a customer has entrusted to a securities brokeragebank accounta fund that a customer has entrusted to a bank and from which the customer can make withdrawalsshort accounta brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own)blood brotherhoodthe friendship characteristic of blood brothersrepressiona state of forcible subjugationoppressionthe state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: "after years of oppression they finally revolted"bondage, slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldomthe state of being under the control of another personbondagethe state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract powerpeonagethe condition of a peonconfinementthe state of being confinedtype of:statethe way something is with respect to its main attributes
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(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoptionsynonyms: family relationship, kinshiptypes:affinity, phylogenetic relation(biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural partsdescent, filiation, line of descent, lineagethe kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitorsaffinity(anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationshipbrotherhoodthe kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblingssteprelationshipa family relationship by virtue of remarriagebilateral descentline of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the familyunilateral descentline of descent traced through one side of the familytype of:relationan abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
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