relationship

Plural

relationships

1. 1.Connection or association; the condition of being related.

2. 2.The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.

   • Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.

3. 3.Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.

4. 4.A romantic or sexual involvement.

   • They have been in a relationship for ten years, but have never married.
   • Her most satisfying sexual relationship seemed to be a threesome with Charles Chaplin Jr. and Eddy Robinson Jr., the spurned sons of famous film fathers.
   • Contrary to the popular perception that love typically sparks from passion, a new study finds two-thirds of romantic relationships begin as long-term friendships.

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