- Persons of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
- unmarried people sharing households (coined by the U.S. Census Bureau during the 1970s) , POSSLQ
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
Persons of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
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