Find the word definition

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jointly

Jointly \Joint"ly\, adv. In a joint manner; together; unitedly; in concert; not separately.

Then jointly to the ground their knees they bow.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
jointly

c.1300, from joint (adj.) + -ly (2). It seems to have chased out joinly (early 15c.).

Wiktionary
jointly

adv. together, acting as one; collectively.

WordNet
jointly
  1. adv. in collaboration or cooperation; "this paper was written jointly"

  2. in conjunction with; combined; "Our salaries put together couldn't pay for the damage"; "we couldn`t pay for the damages with all out salaries put together" [syn: collectively, conjointly, together, put together]

Usage examples of "jointly".

In 1903 the Curies and Becquerel were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.

The three soberly attired men across the table were President Hakit Botal of Okamis, and the Duumviri Prigo and Ga-Bondies, who jointly governed the Imlit Republic.

But the most far-reaching of his achievements was the elaboration, about 1859, jointly with G.

There had been the flight to San Jose, his meeting with Roger Gordian, the formal offer from Gordian to join UpLink in what had to his surprise become a position-its official title being Global Field Supervisor, Security Op erations-that he would hold jointly with a guy named Rollie Thibodeau, who, if memory served, was the other candidate for the job mentioned to him by the high-andmighty Megan Breen back in Stonington.

Tournelle, as well as the appeals pled by both parties, and the last petition of Mesdames du Lude and de Ventadour, sends back the whole case to the three assembled chambers of the States General, to be by them decided on its merits either jointly or separately, as they may deem fit.

Ahead, the spaceship hangars were visible, where Mek technicians maintained four spaceships that were jointly the property of Hagedorn, Janeil, Tuang, Mominglight and Maraval, though, for a variety of reasons, the ships were never used.

After some discussion with First Officer Chakotay, he and I decided to jointly present our findings to Viha Nata and the empress Riva--in a very unusual fashion.

Whether they spend their power in killing or in educating and creating, France, Germany, however much we may resent it, the two great English-speaking communities, Italy, Japan China, and presently perhaps a renascent Russia, are jointly going to control the destinies of mankind.

AL-31FM turbofan on either side, jointly generating almost 60,000 pounds of thrust, Hua was the master of the eternal forces of air and fire, water and earth.

Otter, that the Wilen scanner is a project on which we are engaged jointly with the British?

The Senate and the president could begin by jointly appointing a nonpartisan commission to gather the names of the two dozen or so most distinguished lawyers and judges in the nation, assessed by peer review under the broadest criterion of greatness, without regard to party affiliation, race, gender, ideology, or other such factors.

Henceforth Ireland was to be governed jointly by Cuan of the line of Lochlan, chief poet of Meath, and Corcran Cleireach, a renowned holy man and anchorite under the supervision of the Abbot of Lismore.

And to them was added the irritant provided by the Wilsonian program for national self-determination, which, as Sykes himself was to note, seemed to invalidate the whole skeleton of colonial and partitionary schemes arrived at jointly between the Powers.

For a brief while sacrificer and victim both gazed upward, as if asking jointly for blessing.

Mayapan was destroyed in consequence of a violent feud between the two powerful families who jointly ruled there, the Cocoms and the Xius or Tutul Xius.