pairing
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Homophone: paring
Noun
[edit]pairing (countable and uncountable, plural pairings)
- The combination or union of two things.
- The seeds were adjusted to make sure that there were good pairings for the tennis tournament.
- 2017 November 21, Lindsay Theunis, Christine Schnor, Didier Willaert, Jan Van Bavel, “His and Her Education and Marital Dissolution: Adding a Contextual Dimension”, in European Journal of Population, volume 34, , pages 663-687:
- 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).
- (politics) An agreement between two members of a legislative body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may absent themselves.
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]pairing
- present participle and gerund of pair
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