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
A service-provider is defined as an independent contractor; an independent contractor is any individual who is not an employee of the service-recipient for California purposes and who receives compensation or executes a contract for services performed in or outside California.