marriage of convenience en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Calque of French mariage de convenance.
Meanings
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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.
Widely published author and business consultant would like a marriage of convenience with a woman who is an Irish or Austrian citizen. You get legal resident status in U.S. (and eligibility for student aid), and I get eligibility for prison furloughs plus the citizenship of a neutral country in a few years so I can start a new life elsewhere.
1988 April 23, Adam Starchild, “Personal Advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
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(figuratively) A big tent alliance of disparate factions (such as political factions).
Kofi Annan’s marriage of convenience is likely to last only as long as it takes the political players to build up war chests ahead of another electoral bout.
2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:Libertarians and the Religious Right make odd bedfellows, but that marriage of convenience in the Republican Party has stuck around since the 1980s.
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cmn 政治婚姻 (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · fi mukavuusavioliitto (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · fr mariage de convenance (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · nb fornuftsekteskap (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · ja 政略結婚 (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · pt casamento por conveniência (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · sk formálne manželstvo (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · de Konvenienzehe (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · ro căsătorie de conveniență (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · ca casament de conveniència (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · sh brak iz koristi (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · ru брак по расчёту (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · pt casamento de conveniência (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · hu érdekházasság (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · cmn 權宜婚姻 /权宜婚姻 (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · sv konvenansäktenskap (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · de Zweckehe (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · cs sňatek z rozumu (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · da fornuftsægteskab (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · sh брак из користи (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · ko 정략결혼 (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · de Vernunftehe (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · es matrimonio de conveniencia (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · bg брак по сметка (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · nl huwelijk uit gemak (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · ar زَوَاج مَصْلَحَة (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · tr mantık evliliği (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · nl schijnhuwelijk (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · et mugavusabielu (marriage motivated by some reason other than love) · pl małżeństwo z rozsądku (marriage motivated by some reason other than love)