pull (MOVE), partner

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partner 
noun [C]
1 a person you are closely involved with in some way:
He gave up his job as a police officer after his partner was killed.
The two companies are partners in a contract to build a new power station.

2 one of the owners of a company:
He's a partner in an insurance company/a law firm.
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, the Los Angeles law firm, said it elected 16 new partners, effective Feb. 1.
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3 the person you are married to or living with as if you were married to them, or the person you are having a sexual relationship with

4 one of a pair of dancers or one of a pair who are playing a sport or a game together, especially when the pair are playing as a team

partner
verb [T]
If you partner someone in a sport, a game or a dance, you act as their partner.

partnership 
noun
1 [C or U] the state of being a partner

2 [C] a company which is owned by two or more people:
the John Lewis Partnership

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

pull (MOVE) Show phonetics
verb [I + adverb or preposition] to move in the stated direction:
During the last lap of the race one of the runners began to pull ahead.
We waved as the train pulled out of the station.Our armies are pulling back on all fronts.