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US
/koʊˌhæbəˈteɪʃən/
]
[ UK /kəʊhˌæbɪtˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /kəʊhˌæbɪtˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married)
How To Use cohabitation In A Sentence
- The decline in marriage has been offset by a rise in cohabitation.
- This discipline looks at the positives of marriage and committed cohabitation, at what binds people together. Times, Sunday Times
- The country is currently governed by a cohabitation arrangement in which the president and prime minister belong to rival parties.
- The world environment includes the cohabitation of animals, plants, and humans.
- Despite the repeated attempts to the serene and joint cohabitation of peoples, peace is possible and right.
- But he gave the boar a quick checkup and ruled the porker perfectly fine for consumption - or cohabitation.
- The artist's work engages with the productive cohabitation of birds and humans in the countryside.
- The Committee was not without its own misgivings about non-cohabitation as a prerequisite for prosecution for marital rape.
- And it seems cohabitation is probably providing her with physical safety and probably also with some income safety as well. Op-Ed: The Recession Isn't Hurting Marriage
- The issue of peaceful cohabitation of the various peoples that have inhabited the region for centuries has been intensified.