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cohost

cohost noun: a joint host alongside another (compare costar).

Noun

cohost (plural cohosts)

  1. A joint host alongside another (compare costar).
    • A morning TV anchor in Oklahoma apologized a day after likening her black cohost to a gorilla.2019 August 27, Mallory Simon, “TV anchor apologizes after comparing black cohost to a gorilla”, in CNN
    • It’s exactly what you’d expect from the cohosts of “Door, Bumper, Clear,” the weekly podcast featuring Griffin, Majors and Kraft, along with host Casey Boat and producer Jason Schultz, with the podcast produced by Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Dirty Mo Media company. It’s this kind of candor that has made...2022 March 11, Jordan Bianchi, “‘Door, Bumper, Clear’: The unfiltered NASCAR podcast that isn’t afraid to speak its mind”, in The New York Times

Verb

cohost (third-person singular simple present cohosts, present participle cohosting, simple past and past participle cohosted)

  1. To act as a joint host.
  2. (transitive) To store data or applications on a shared server (as in web hosting).
    • Generally speaking, in a shared computing system, such as a server farm shared by multiple cohosted Web sites, common resources can be categorized into two different types: those shared in time and those shared in space.2006, Hossein Bidgoli, Handbook of Information Security
    • If you choose to cohost specific components on the same server (e.g., VMM server and database), please keep in mind that each has its own performance characteristics and resource requirements.2011, Michael Michael, Hector Linares, Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, →ISBN, page 52

Forms of cohost

Noun
pluralcohosts
alternative formco-host
Verb
third-person singular presentcohosts
present participlecohosting
past participlecohosted
pastcohosted

Origin of cohost

From co- + host.

Questions about cohost

What does cohost mean?
Cohost means a joint host alongside another (compare costar).
What part of speech is cohost?
Cohost can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of cohost?
The plural of cohost is cohosts.

Words near cohost in the dictionary

  1. cohortmates
  2. cohorts
  3. cohos
  4. cohosh
  5. cohoshes
  6. cohost
  7. cohosted
  8. cohostess
  9. cohostessed
  10. cohostesses
  11. cohostessing

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