Cohabitation vs Cohabit - What's the difference?
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An emotional and physical intimate relationship which includes a common living place and which exists without legal or religious sanction.
The act of living together.
A place where two or more individuals reside together.
(biology) The act of two species living together in the same habitat.
(politics) Cooperation between politicians of opposing political parties; especially, in France, between a President and Prime Minister.
* 2001 , Jon Henly, The Guardian , 18 Jul 2001:
Cohabitation is a related term of cohabit.
As a noun cohabitation
is an emotional and physical intimate relationship which includes a common living place and which exists without legal or religious sanction.As a verb cohabit is
to reside with another as if married or as a married couple.cohabitation
English
(wikipedia cohabitation)Noun
(en noun)- Commentators agreed that Mr Chirac's unusually aggressive remarks, followed by the equally fierce response of Mr Jospin's government, signalled the beginning of the end for the tense but so far civil "cohabitation " under which the two men have ruled France since 1997.
