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Definitions of paired:

To pair off, to separate from a company in pairs; in Parliament, applied to two members of opposite political opinions when they agree to absent themselves from divisions of the House for a specified time in order to neutralise each other's votes; the term is similarly applied to electors, & c., of opposite views who agree mutually to refrain from voting.

Usage examples for paired:

• Whose first attempt in a new style ever paired with its conception? "Esther", Henry Adams

• Fathers and mothers desire to have their children settled in life, as we say, as early as possible, and among the families of friends they are paired off almost as soon as they are born. "Modern India", William Eleroy Curtis