MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (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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