What does «cohabitación» mean in Spanish?
- Status of persons living together. Cohabitation is an arrangement in which two or more people are not married but live together. Sometimes it may be a long-term or permanent romantic or sexually intimate relationship. These arrangements have become increasingly common in Western countries in recent decades and have been driven by changing social views, especially regarding marriage, gender roles and religion.
Examples of use in Spanish: "La cohabitación en América Latina es cada vez más común. De hecho, aunque esta es una región mayormente católica romana, tiene las tasas más altas de maternidad no matrimonial en el mundo".
- In politics, a system of divided government that occurs in semi-presidential systems, as in France, when the president belongs to a political party different from that of the majority of the members of parliament. It occurs because such a system forces the president to appoint a prime minister who is acceptable to the majority party within parliament. Thus, cohabitation occurs because of the duality of the executive branch: an independently elected president and a prime minister who must be acceptable to both this president and the legislature. Cohabitation was a product of the French Fifth Republic, albeit an unintended one.