domestic partnership
Americannoun
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domestic partnerships
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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.
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Business. an arrangement in which a company based in a developing country collaborates with a foreign-based multinational.
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Math alone makes opening domestic partnership to polyamorous relationships challenging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
Washington state is a community-property state, meaning that most assets and debts acquired during a marriage or registered domestic partnership are presumed to be marital property.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026
Ms. Baldwin herself is not married, though she was in a domestic partnership that has since been dissolved.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
The once-a-decade census, the yearly American Community Survey and the annual Current Population Survey now allow same-sex couples a chance to answer if they are in a marriage or domestic partnership.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2022
And in the case of woman it is of "trying on" in connexion with her public partnership with man that prin- 49 ciple of domestic partnership, "All yours is mine, and all mine's my own."
From The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage by Almroth Wright
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