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A marriage motivated by some reason other than love; for example, one conducted to obtain residence rights in a country, for financial gain, or for political purposes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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A big tent alliance of disparate factions (such as political factions).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- Libertarians and the Religious Right make odd bedfellows, but that marriage of convenience in the Republican Party has stuck around since the 1980s.
Meaning relationships
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a marriage for expediency rather than love
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock
Calque of French mariage de convenance.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
زَوَاج مَصْلَحَة
(zawāj maṣlaḥa)
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Bulgarian:
брак по сметка
(brak po smetka)
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Catalan:
casament de conveniència
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Chinese Mandarin:
權宜婚姻 /权宜婚姻
(quányí hūnyīn)
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Chinese Mandarin:
政治婚姻
(zhèngzhì hūnyīn)
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Czech:
sňatek z rozumu
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Danish:
fornuftsægteskab
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Dutch:
schijnhuwelijk
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Dutch:
huwelijk uit gemak
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Estonian:
mugavusabielu
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Finnish:
mukavuusavioliitto
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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French:
mariage de convenance
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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German:
Zweckehe
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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German:
Vernunftehe
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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German:
Konvenienzehe
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Hungarian:
érdekházasság
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Japanese:
政略結婚
(seiryaku kekkon)
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Korean:
정략결혼
(jeongnyakgyeolhon)
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Norwegian Bokmål:
fornuftsekteskap
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Polish:
małżeństwo z rozsądku
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Portuguese:
casamento de conveniência
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Portuguese:
casamento por conveniência
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Romanian:
căsătorie de conveniență
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Russian:
брак по расчёту
(brak po rasčótu)
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Serbo-Croatian:
брак из користи
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Serbo-Croatian:
brak iz koristi
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Slovak:
formálne manželstvo
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Spanish:
matrimonio de conveniencia
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Swedish:
konvenansäktenskap
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
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Turkish:
mantık evliliği
— marriage motivated by some reason other than love
