repartnering
repartnering is the present participle and gerund of repartner.
Meaning of repartner
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
Noun
repartnering (plural repartnerings)
- The establishing of a relationship with a new partner
- For very young children parental repartnering was less of an accommodation, as they had no or limited memories of their parents as single.2015 December 29, “When Parents Separate and One Parent ‘Comes Out’ as Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual: Sons and Daughters Engage with the Tension that Occurs When Their Family Unit Changes”, in PLOS ONE...
Forms of repartnering
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Questions about repartnering
- What does repartnering mean?
- Repartnering means the establishing of a relationship with a new partner.
- What is repartnering the present participle and gerund of?
- Repartnering is the present participle and gerund of repartner.
- What part of speech is repartnering?
- Repartnering is a noun.
- What is the plural of repartnering?
- The plural of repartnering is repartnerings.
Words near repartnering in the dictionary
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