expartner

See also: ex-partner

English

Etymology

From ex- +‎ partner.

Noun

expartner (plural expartners)

1. Alternative form of ex-partner
   • 1867, Sir John Barnard Byles, George Sharswood, A Treatise of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-Notes and Checks:

     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.

   • 1991, Joe D. Batten, Wendy Havemann, Bill Pearce, Tough-Minded Parenting, →ISBN, page 160:

     Decide whether your child is important enough to you to avoid making him as just another means of waging war with your expartner.

   • 2000, Robert Abrams, Walter T. Burke, Timothy E. Casserly, Boomer Basics, →ISBN:

     Avoid using your children as pawns in any disagreements or legal battles you might have with your expartner.

   • 2003, Robert B. Taylor, A.K. David, D.M. Phillips, Fundamentals of Family Medicine: The Family Medicine Clerkship Textbook, →ISBN:

     Thirty percent of female homicides in 1996 were committed by partners or expartners.