live together
— phrasal verb with live /lɪv/ verbDefinition
B2 If two people live together, they share a house and have a sexual relationship but are not married: Nowadays many young people live together before they get married.Marriage, cohabitation and other relationships
(Definition of live together from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
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- as husband and wife idiom
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