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pairing

noun

Definitions

  1. The combination or union of two things.

    • The seeds were adjusted to make sure that there were good pairings for the tennis tournament.
    • In the past, quite some studies have shown that educational hypogamous marriages are more likely to dissolve than marriages with other educational pairings (see Schwartz and Han 2014 for a review).

  2. An agreement between two members of a legislative body holding opposite opinions to…

    An agreement between two members of a legislative body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may absent themselves.

  3. present participle and gerund of pair

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA