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ALIMONY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does alimony mean?
• ALIMONY (noun)
The noun ALIMONY has 1 sense:
1. court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
Familiarity information: ALIMONY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
alimony; maintenance
Hypernyms ("alimony" is a kind of...):
support payment (a payment made by one person for the support of another)
Context examples
Additionally, you may have had an unwanted shock regarding finances. (Uranus rules your eighth house of other people’s money.) The funds you were thinking about might have concerned one of the following: venture capital, commissions, royalties, child support, alimony, student loans, inheritance, insurance claims, or a court case settlement.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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