[V] ~ (with sb) (formal) (usually of a man and a woman) to live together and have a sexual relationship without being married:
cohabiting couples * She refused to cohabit with him before the wedding.
cohabitation noun [U]:
There have been great changes in the patterns of marriage, divorce and cohabitation. * (figurative) a period of cohabitation between a conservative government and a socialist president
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