cohabitation

Examples of cohabiting

cohabiting

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 of cohabiting people received care from the cohabitee in 2002/03, although the difference was statistically insignificant.
This group explored the concept of spiritual correspondences (having an invisible lover cohabiting one's body - a concept invoking transmigration) and sought a promised land.
Significant difference in the health state score is also observed for cohabiting status and the score is about 4.1% lower for the single.
A married man, who had risked losing his cohabiting girlfriend if he had not agreed to marriage, commented that 'she seemed worth gambling on'.
This second dataset is composed of the responses of the surveyed married or cohabiting parents of secondary school students from all six communities.
Marital status distinguishes between partnered men (married or cohabiting) and those who are currently widowed, divorced (or separated), or never married.
Individuals in first or remarried relationships showed a marked increase in depressive symptoms following separation that was absent in those in cohabiting relationships.
The main part of the research involved qualitative interviews with 17 married and 12 cohabiting 'intact' couples.
The women were systematically selected from a stratified random sample ensuring approximately equal numbers of single and cohabiting women in each age group.
The overwhelming majority (77 %) of the sample and the age group were married or cohabiting.
Similarly, apparent reasons for cohabiting vary by education level with cohabiting being more common among students as a convenient accommodation choice.
For many married and cohabiting respondents, marriage was seen as an additional, but not necessarily the main, way of achieving security.
Analysis of results from the first survey has shown that those living-apart-together tend to be much younger than those who are co-residentially cohabiting.
Consequently, the median time to repartnering is over 7 years - more than twice as long as after the dissolution of a cohabiting union.
For a spell to be included in this sample the dissolution of the cohabiting union had to be observed within the panel.
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