ex-partner

English

Alternative forms

• expartner

Etymology

From ex- +‎ partner.

Noun

ex-partner (plural ex-partners)

1. Someone who was once a partner (any sense) but is not one any more.
   • 2011, Louis Ferrante, Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman, →ISBN:

     The wiseguy repeatedly knocked the businessman's ex-partner, who both agreed was a lazy son of a bitch and didn't hold up his end of the business.

   • 2012, Elda Minger, She's The One, →ISBN:

     What with his ex-partner having embezzled most of his detective agency right out from under him and hightailed it to parts unknown, and with Sam not having two dollars to his name at the moment, things were grim.

   • 2014, Karen Woodall, Nick Woodall, The Guide For Separated Parents: Putting children first, →ISBN:

     You may, for example, feel that you are angry because your ex-partner has not brought the children home on time again.

   • 2016, Mahzad Hojjat, Anne Moyer, The Psychology of Friendship, →ISBN:

     Not only are there many factors involved in the formation of ex-partner friendships, but these intrapersonal, dyadic, and social network factors interact in complex ways to determine the type of relationship that one has with an ex-partner.