cohabiting
present participle ofcohabit
| 单词 | cohabiting |
| 释义 | cohabiting present participle ofcohabit cohabit verb[I] formaluk/kəʊˈhæb.ɪt/us/koʊˈhæb.ɪt/If twopeople,especiallya man and woman who are notmarried, cohabit, theylivetogether and have asexualrelationship: About 23percentof men and womenaged25 to 34 told researchers they hadpreviouslycohabitedwithapartnerwithout itleadingtomarriage. cohabitingcouples Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
Examplesofcohabitingcohabiting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. A higher percentage ofcohabitingpeople received care from the cohabitee in 2002/03, although the difference was statistically insignificant. From theCambridge English Corpus This group explored the concept of spiritual correspondences (having an invisible lovercohabitingone's body - a concept invoking transmigration) and sought a promised land. From theCambridge English Corpus Significant difference in the health state score is also observed forcohabitingstatus and the score is about 4.1% lower for the single. From theCambridge English Corpus A married man, who had risked losing hiscohabitinggirlfriend if he had not agreed to marriage, commented that 'she seemed worth gambling on'. From theCambridge English Corpus This second dataset is composed of the responses of the surveyed married orcohabitingparents of secondary school students from all six communities. From theCambridge English Corpus Marital status distinguishes between partnered men (married orcohabiting) and those who are currently widowed, divorced (or separated), or never married. From theCambridge English Corpus Individuals in first or remarried relationships showed a marked increase in depressive symptoms following separation that was absent in those incohabitingrelationships. From theCambridge English Corpus The main part of the research involved qualitative interviews with 17 married and 12cohabiting'intact' couples. From theCambridge English Corpus The women were systematically selected from a stratified random sample ensuring approximately equal numbers of single andcohabitingwomen in each age group. From theCambridge English Corpus The overwhelming majority (77 %) of the sample and the age group were married orcohabiting. From theCambridge English Corpus Similarly, apparent reasons forcohabitingvary by education level withcohabitingbeing more common among students as a convenient accommodation choice. From theCambridge English Corpus For many married andcohabitingrespondents, marriage was seen as an additional, but not necessarily the main, way of achieving security. From theCambridge English Corpus Analysis of results from the first survey has shown that those living-apart-together tend to be much younger than those who are co-residentiallycohabiting. From theCambridge English Corpus Consequently, the median time to repartnering is over 7 years - more than twice as long as after the dissolution of acohabitingunion. From theCambridge English Corpus For a spell to be included in this sample the dissolution of thecohabitingunion had to be observed within the panel. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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