cofounder
See also: co-founder
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəʊˈfaʊndə/
- (General American) enPR: kōʹfound'ər, kōʹfound-ər, kō'foundʹər IPA(key): /ˈkoʊ(ˌ)faʊndɚ/, /ˌkoʊˈfaʊndɚ/
- Rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: co‧founder
Noun
[edit]cofounder (plural cofounders)
- A joint founder; one of several people involved with the creation of a business, organization, union, or entity.
- The two cofounders both attended the ceremony.
- 2005 March 30, “Miramax founders leave Disney”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Miramax Films cofounders Bob and Harvey Weinstein will end their successful, but often tumultuous, 12-year relationship with The Walt Disney Company to launch their own media company.
- 2021 October 8, Jon Henley and Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Maria Ressa, the chief executive and cofounder of Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, were named as this year’s laureates by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee.
- 2023 October 18, Damien Gayle, “Greta Thunberg charged with public order offence after London oil protest”, in The Guardian[3]:
- Details of Thunberg’s charge came as Just Stop Oil said its cofounders, Indigo Rumbelow and Roger Hallam, were arrested on Wednesday morning following dawn raids at their homes.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]one who founds something with someone else
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