Cohabitation implies that the parties are having sexual intercourse while living together, but the definition would not apply to a casual sexual encounter. Legal tests have been filed to determine whether cohabitation would refer to same sex partners, which is important to those involved since cohabitation is the basis of certain rights and privileges under various laws, regulations and contracts.
A service provider is a group that provides organizations with consulting, legal, real estate, education, communications, storage, processing, and many other services. Any IT service could be considered as a service provider delivering an outcome to a customer
Shared services. Shared services is the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group, where that service had previously been found, in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an internal service provider.