cohabitation
Britishnoun
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the state or condition of living together as husband and wife without being married
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(of political parties) the state or condition of cooperating for specific purposes without forming a coalition
Example Sentences
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Cohabitation, marriage, kids are life changes, and milestones, but they are not in themselves representative of growth.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2021
Q. Cohabitation conflict: I have a 20-year old daughter.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2020
Cohabitation, Pleck explains, has, since the 1960s, often been considered a white phenomenon — when we think of it, we tend to think of hippie communes and college students trying out domestic partnership.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2013
Cohabitation is hell, but Mr. Shawn makes the devastating, poignant point that it wouldn’t hurt nearly as much if we didn’t need and want it.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2011
My Business is about Propagation, as the civil Lawyers do learnedly paraphrase, is of Concomitance, or Cohabitation, or what you please to term it.
From The Stolen Heiress or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted by Centlivre, Susanna
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