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MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does marriage of convenience mean?
• MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE (noun)
The noun MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE has 1 sense:
1. a marriage for expediency rather than love
Familiarity information: MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A marriage for expediency rather than love
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("marriage of convenience" is a kind of...):
marriage; matrimony; spousal relationship; union; wedlock (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))
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