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live-inadjective [attributive]1(Of a domestic employee) resident in an employer’s house: a live-in housekeeper...- Once my mother asked me if I would mind spending the weekend helping my memaw around her house as her live-in nurse had to take off for the weekend for personal reasons.
- She employs a live-in maid, but otherwise lives alone.
- Employing a live-in servant was particularly important to distinguish the white-collar group, including civil servants, from that of the working class in Belgium.
1.1(Of a person) living with another in a sexual relationship: a live-in lover...- However, survey after survey reveals that young people still believe in marriage - few are for live-in relationships.
- Tim willingly takes the night shift at an adult video store but it takes a toll on his relationship with live-in girlfriend, Trish.
- It is hardly surprising, in the circumstances, that there has been little public discussion about ways to reduce the tensions that accompany the break-up of a marriage or live-in relationship.
1.2Residential: a live-in treatment program...- He is still on parole from his previous, so he has parole, he has probation and has to be in his live-in treatment program.
- For a woman addict, live-in treatment is only possible when she has no other family commitments.
- According to her, the mail order bride industry can't be separated from Canada's live-in caregiver program, which offers women a chance to immigrate here if they work as a domestic for two years.
noun informalA person who shares another’s living accommodation as a sexual partner or as an employee.More employers are offering benefits to domestic partners: 25 percent of those surveyed currently provide benefits to opposite sex live-ins, and 16 percent offer benefits to same-sex partners....- ‘These recipes have been tested on two husbands, five live-ins, 25 boyfriends and an undisclosed number of one-night stands,’ she said, laughing.
- Experts do observe that ‘life satisfaction’ is remarkably low for long-term live-ins.
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