pairing
/pˈɛɹɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An agreement between two members of a legislative body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may absent themselves.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The seeds were adjusted to make sure that there were good pairings for the tennis tournament."
- "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)."