consortium vs partnership

consortium

noun
  • An association or society. 

  • A group of symbiotic microbes. 

  • The right of a spouse to all the normal relationships with his or her mate. 

  • An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture. 

  • A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations. 

partnership

noun
  • An association of two or more people to conduct a business 

  • The state of being associated with a partner. 

  • The period when two specific batsmen are batting, from the fall of one wicket until the fall of the next; the number of runs scored during this period, 

How often have the words consortium and partnership occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )