joint

1 adjective (only before noun)

1 shared, owned by, or involving two or more people or groups: a joint bank account | joint first prize | joint army and airforce operations

2 joint effort a situation in which two or more people work together: “Who cooked the meal?” “Well it was a joint effort really.”

3 joint venture a business activity begun by two or more people or companies working together

4 joint resolution law a decision or law agreed by both houses of the US Congress and signed by the President

— jointly adverb: tenants who are jointly responsible for their rent 2 noun (C)

1 a part of your body where two bones meet: knee joint

2 BrE a large piece of meat for cooking, usually containing a bone: a joint of beef

3 a place where two things or parts of an object are joined together: Rain penetrates the joints between the concrete panels.

4 out of joint

a) if a bone in your body is out of joint, it has been pushed out of its correct position

b) if a system, group etc is out of joint, it is not working properly: Something is out of joint in our society.

—see also: put sb's nose out of joint nose 1 (18)

5 informal a cheap bar, club, or restaurant: a hamburger joint

—see also: clip joint

6 slang a cigarette containing cannabis

—see also: case the joint case 2 (2) 3 verb (T) to cut meat into joints joint 2 (2)