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Marriage of convenience   /mˈɛrɪdʒ əv kənvˈinjəns/   Listen
Marriage of convenience

noun
1.
A marriage for expediency rather than love.





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"Marriage of convenience" Quotes from Famous Books



... perhaps, clearly not Mr. Baruch's face. Ultimately the sculptor succeeded in wedding a smile to that brow, and the bust went on exhibition with those of Wilson, Foch, House, Clemenceau, and the others; but the union was never more than a compromise, a marriage of convenience ...
— The Mirrors of Washington • Anonymous
... want to "get on" up the social scale have found that pretty daughters are a marketable commodity, and many a man has been placed "on his legs," both financially and socially, by his son-in-law. Hence the marriage of convenience is fast becoming common, while in the same ratio the divorce petitions ...
— The Czar's Spy - The Mystery of a Silent Love • William Le Queux


Words linked to "Marriage of convenience" :   spousal relationship, marriage, wedlock, union, matrimony


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