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live-in adjective ( RELATIONSHIP )

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Definition

describes someone's sexual partner who lives in their home but is not married to them
a live-in lover

(Definition of live-in adjective (RELATIONSHIP) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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