Definition of Jointly

1. Adverb. In collaboration or cooperation. "This paper was written jointly"

2. Adverb. In conjunction with; combined. "We couldn't pay for the damages with all our salaries put together"


Definition of Jointly

1. adv. In a joint manner; together; unitedly; in concert; not separately.

Definition of Jointly

1. Adverb. Together, acting as one; collectively. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jointly

1. together [adv] - See also: together

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jointly

jointedly
jointedness
jointednesses
jointer
jointer plane
jointers
jointfir
jointfirs
jointing
jointing plane
jointings
jointist
jointists
jointless
jointlessly
jointly (current term)
jointness
jointress
jointresses
joints
joints of auditory ossicles
joints of ear bones
joints of foot
joints of free inferior limb
joints of free lower limb
joints of free superior limb
joints of free upper limb
joints of hand
joints of pectoral girdle

Literary usage of Jointly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"The assertion of the relation of passenger and carrier as measuring the duties of a street railroad company, sued jointly with a natural gas company for ..."

2. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"Where several persons bind themselves for the same performance, they may not only bind themselves either jointly or each one separately, but also they may ..."

3. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1882)
"... taken in the name of one grantee only, or of two or more grantees jointly; ... others jointly, or in the names of others without that of the purchaser, ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"It must be either on his implied promise that he would be jointly responsible with Forsyth for the acts of EP Tesson, thus making him a ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In the same year The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company became owner jointly with the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & Saint Louis Railway Company of the ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"To parties jointly liable. To a transferor not indorsing. substitution of the house, ... Where two or more parties are jointly liable on a bill or note, ..."

7. The Law of Baron and Femme: Of Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master by Tapping Reeve, Amasa Junius Parker, Charles E. Baldwin (1882)
"... MUST BE SUED jointly. OUR next inquiry shall be, in what cases the husband must join with his wife in a suit, and when he may join her or not at his ..."

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