repartner

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verb

To establish a relationship with a new partner.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person repartners · participle present repartnering · participle past repartnered · past repartnered · alternative re-partner

  1. intransitiveTo establish a relationship with a new partner.

    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.

    2025 September 12, Molly Gorman, “'Was it all smoke and mirrors?': How adult children are affected by grey divorce”, in BBC

Origin

From re- + partner.

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APA

repartner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repartner

MLA

“repartner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repartner. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “repartner,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repartner.

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