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codeswitching

codeswitching is the alternative form of code-switching.

codeswitching is the present participle and gerund of codeswitch.

Meaning of code-switching

Noun

code-switching (countable and uncountable, plural code-switchings)

  1. The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.
    • As with many bilingual families, it was normal to observe frequent code-switching at our dinner table.
    Synonyms:
    code-mixing

Forms of codeswitching

pluralcodeswitchings

Questions about codeswitching

What is codeswitching the alternative form of?
Codeswitching is the alternative form of code-switching.

Words near codeswitching in the dictionary

  1. codestream
  2. codestreams
  3. codeswitch
  4. codeswitched
  5. codeswitches
  6. codeswitching
  7. codeswitchings
  8. codetalker
  9. codetalkers
  10. codetect
  11. codetected

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Adapted from Wiktionary: codeswitching (page history and authors); code-switching (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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