repartner
repartner verb: to establish a relationship with a new partner.
Verb
repartner (third-person singular simple present repartners, present participle repartnering, simple past and past participle repartnered)
- To establish a relationship with a new partner.
- Other papers have also suggested that parental divorce in later life results in less contact between fathers and their children, decreasing even further when a father re-partners. By contrast, when a mother re-partners, it does not seem to change the mother-child contact.2025 September 12, Molly Gorman, “'Was it all smoke and mirrors?': How adult children are affected by grey divorce”, in BBC
Forms of repartner
| third-person singular present | repartners |
|---|---|
| present participle | repartnering |
| past participle | repartnered |
| past | repartnered |
| alternative form | re-partner |
Origin of repartner
From re- + partner.
Questions about repartner
- What does repartner mean?
- Repartner means to establish a relationship with a new partner.
- What part of speech is repartner?
- Repartner is a verb.
- What is the past tense of repartner?
- The past tense of repartner is repartnered.
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