domestic partnership

American  

[duh-mest-ik pahrt-ner-ship] / dəˈmɛst ɪk ˈpɑrt nərˌʃɪp /

noun

plural

domestic partnerships

1. the legal status of two unmarried people who live together and are granted certain legal spousal recognitions, such as eligibility for benefits or tax credits.

2. Business. an arrangement in which a company based in a developing country collaborates with a foreign-based multinational.

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Example Sentences

She’s a 16-year-old Labrador retriever who became the target of a nasty custody fight between a California couple after the dissolution of their domestic partnership.

From Los Angeles Times

The case originated in 2024, two years after a family court judge in San Diego dissolved the domestic partnership of Joan Torres Campos and Munoz.

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Actual implementation of a plural domestic partnership registry, however, is still at least several months away.

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In 2020, as Somerville, Mass., rushed to get domestic partnership law on the books amid the spread of the coronavirus, one City Council member suggested to fellow officials working on the law that the registered relationships not be limited to two adults.

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West Hollywood is a case in point, she noted, having been, in 1985, the first city in the U.S. to establish a domestic partnership registry, though it did not extend insurance coverage to city employees’ unmarried partners until 1989.

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