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parted company

parted company is the simple past and past participle of part company.

Meaning of part company

Verb

part company (third-person singular simple present parts company, present participle parting company, simple past and past participle parted company)

  1. To end a relationship.
  2. To separate; to go one's own way (of two or more people or things).
    • The vines parted company with the wall as I attempted the climb, and I crashed to the ground.

Questions about parted company

What is parted company the simple past and past participle of?
Parted company is the simple past and past participle of part company.

Words near parted company in the dictionary

  1. partays
  2. Partchian
  3. parte
  4. parted
  5. parted brass rags
  6. parted company
  7. parted off
  8. parted out
  9. parted ways
  10. parted with
  11. partedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parted company (page history and authors); part company (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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