repartner

English

Alternative forms

re-partner

Etymology

From re- +‎ partner.

Verb

repartner (third-person singular simple present repartners, present participle repartnering, simple past and past participle repartnered)

(intransitive) To establish a relationship with a new partner.
- 2025 September 12, Molly Gorman, “'Was it all smoke and mirrors?': How adult children are affected by grey divorce”, in BBC‎^[1]:
  Other papers have also suggested that parental divorce in later life results in less contact between fathers and their children, decreasing even further when a father re-partners. By contrast, when a mother re-partners, it does not seem to change the mother-child contact.