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rooming in

rooming in is the present participle and gerund of room in.

Meaning of room in

Verb

room in (third-person singular simple present rooms in, present participle rooming in, simple past and past participle roomed in)

  1. (intransitive) Of a mother and her new baby; to stay together in the same room.
    • The concept of rooming-in to facilitate parenting was first championed in the United States in the 1940's by Faith Jackson, a child psychiatrist at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center […]1986, Kim Oates, Child abuse: a community concern

Questions about rooming in

What is rooming in the present participle and gerund of?
Rooming in is the present participle and gerund of room in.

Words near rooming in in the dictionary

  1. roomily
  2. roominess
  3. rooming
  4. rooming house
  5. rooming houses
  6. rooming in
  7. rooming-in
  8. roomkeeper
  9. roomkeepers
  10. roomless
  11. roomlessness

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