relationship : Idioms & Phrases

noun a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
account.
- he asked to see the executive who handled his account

noun (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
relationship; kinship.

noun a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)
relationship.
- the relationship between mothers and their children

noun the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
union; matrimony; marriage; wedlock.
- a long and happy marriage
- God bless this union