marriage entered into for practical reasons (and not for love)
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Marriage of convenience Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Noun
1. a marriage for expediency rather than love
(hypernym) marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock
Marriage of convenience Definition from Law Dictionaries & Glossaries
A marriage concluded between a national of an EU Member State and a third-country national with the sole aim of circumventing the rules on entry and residence of third-country nationals. (See Immigration: Family reunificationm)
© European Communities, 1995-2004Marriage of convenience Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
A marriage of convenience (plural marriages of convenience) is a marriage contracted for reasons other than the reasons of relationship, family, or love. Instead, such a marriage is orchestrated for personal gain or some other sort of strategic purpose, such as political marriage. The phrase is a calque of - a marriage of convention, or marriage of suitability. In the cases when it represents a fraud, it is called sham marriage.
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