domestic partnership

domestic partnership.

1. A nonmarital relationship between two persons of the same or opposite sex who live together as a couple for a significant period of time.

2. A relationship that an employer or governmental entity recognizes as equivalent to marriage for the purpose of extending employee-partner benefits otherwise reserved for the spouses of employees. Cf. CIVIL UNION; same-sex marriage under MARRIAGE(1). — domestic partner, n.

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