domestic partner
noun
plural domestic partners
1
: a company especially in a developing country that joins in a commercial venture with an international company
2
: either member of an unmarried cohabiting couple especially when considered as to eligibility for spousal benefits
domestic partnership
noun
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The benefit would also become available to surviving domestic partners of these first responders.
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Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2025
Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory was the first automobile factory in China to gain approval to be wholly owned by a foreign company without a domestic partner.
—Claire Fu, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The bar was built by her domestic partner, local artist and musician Diego Florez-Arroyo.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2025
Her death came just months after Tania Thomas, 47, was also strangled while with her domestic partner Anthony Curry, also serving a life sentence in the same prison, according to NBC News.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
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Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2025
Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory was the first automobile factory in China to gain approval to be wholly owned by a foreign company without a domestic partner.
—Claire Fu, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The bar was built by her domestic partner, local artist and musician Diego Florez-Arroyo.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2025
Her death came just months after Tania Thomas, 47, was also strangled while with her domestic partner Anthony Curry, also serving a life sentence in the same prison, according to NBC News.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
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“Domestic partner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/domestic%20partner. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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