Word.ws English Dictionary

de facto partner

de facto partner noun: one of the spouse-like partners in a de facto union.

Noun

de facto partner (plural de facto partners)

  1. (Quebec) One of the spouse-like partners in a de facto union.

Forms of de facto partner

pluralde facto partners

Origin of de facto partner

Calque of French conjoint de fait.

Questions about de facto partner

What does de facto partner mean?
De facto partner means one of the spouse-like partners in a de facto union.
What part of speech is de facto partner?
De facto partner is a noun.
What is the plural of de facto partner?
The plural of de facto partner is de facto partners.

Words near de facto partner in the dictionary

  1. De Doorns
  2. De Entremont
  3. de facto
  4. de facto corporation
  5. de facto corporations
  6. de facto partner
  7. de facto partners
  8. de facto union
  9. de facto unions
  10. de factos
  11. De Fonblanque

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: de facto partner (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “de facto partner.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/de_facto_partner. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.