pairing
Word-form referencespair
Noun
The combination or union of two things.
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The seeds were adjusted to make sure that there were good pairings for the tennis tournament.
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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).
An agreement between two members of a legislative body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may absent themselves.
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Noun
the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
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the casual couplings of adolescents
the mating of some species occurs only in the spring
the act of grouping things or people in pairs
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pairings