See alimony on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1985, Joel Schumacher, Carl Kurlander, St. Elmo's Fire (motion picture), spoken by Kevin Dolenz (Andrew McCarthy):",
"text": "Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony… palimony… it's all financial. Love is an illusion.",
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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"word": "алименты"
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"word": "ค่าอุปการะเลี้ยงดู"
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"word": "elanto"
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"ref": "1626, Sampson Price, Londons remembrancer: for the staying of the contagious sicknes of the plague by Dauids memoriall, pages 27–28:",
"text": "[…]while we eate the bread of sorrow, drinking the wine of compunction, wee hunger and thirst after heauenly things, and shall be comforted. This is the constant alimonie of the righteous, at dinner and supper, in life and death[…]",
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"ref": "1633, John Randal, Noble Blastus the honor of a lord chamberlaine: and of a good bed-chamber-man: or The courtier justified in conditions of peace, pages 32–33:",
"text": "[…]What marvell if our corne faile us, when wee faile God in the good employment of our corne?[…]So that drunkennesse, gluttony, fraud, covetisme, the unworthy receiving, or not receiving of the Sacraments, and a million more are all in cause, why God denies this fruitfull alimonie, which formerlie he gave. And doe we then aske what is the cause? when as our sinnes so superabundant are.",
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{
"ref": "1653, Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling, →OCLC, page 308:",
"text": "[…]having the advantage of this strange way of alimony, he sold his allowance of provant at great rates;[…]",
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"(obsolete) Nourishment, sustenance, especially for one's spirit."
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"ref": "1626, Sampson Price, Londons remembrancer: for the staying of the contagious sicknes of the plague by Dauids memoriall, pages 27–28:",
"text": "[…]while we eate the bread of sorrow, drinking the wine of compunction, wee hunger and thirst after heauenly things, and shall be comforted. This is the constant alimonie of the righteous, at dinner and supper, in life and death[…]",
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"ref": "1633, John Randal, Noble Blastus the honor of a lord chamberlaine: and of a good bed-chamber-man: or The courtier justified in conditions of peace, pages 32–33:",
"text": "[…]What marvell if our corne faile us, when wee faile God in the good employment of our corne?[…]So that drunkennesse, gluttony, fraud, covetisme, the unworthy receiving, or not receiving of the Sacraments, and a million more are all in cause, why God denies this fruitfull alimonie, which formerlie he gave. And doe we then aske what is the cause? when as our sinnes so superabundant are.",
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"ref": "1653, Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling, →OCLC, page 308:",
"text": "[…]having the advantage of this strange way of alimony, he sold his allowance of provant at great rates;[…]",
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"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "nafaqa",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "نَفَقَة"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izdrǎžka",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "издръжка"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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"word": "pensió"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "贍養費"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shànyǎngfèi",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "赡养费"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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"word": "hustrubidrag"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "alimentatie"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "nutramono"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "alimento"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "elatusapu"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pension alimentaire"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "alimenṭi",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "ალიმენტი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Unterhalt"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
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"word": "Alimente"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "epídoma diatrofís",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "επίδομα διατροφής"
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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"plural"
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"word": "מְזוֹנוֹת"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "feleségtartás"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "asszonytartás"
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "nőtartás"
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "tartásdíj"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "eltartás"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
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"word": "ailiúnas"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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"plural"
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"word": "alimenti"
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fuyōryō",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "扶養料"
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"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
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"word": "argid scarrey poosee"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "nafaqe",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "نفقه"
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "bāruze",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "باروزه"
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{
"code": "fa",
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"roman": "xarji",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "خرجی"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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"plural"
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"word": "alimenty"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "pensão alimentícia"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
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"word": "pensão"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pensie de întreținere"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pensie alimentară"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "alimenty",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "алименты"
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"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "alimenty"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "underhåll"
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{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kâa-ùp-bpà-gaa-rá-líiang-duu",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "ค่าอุปการะเลี้ยงดู"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"word": "nafaka"
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{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "aliménty",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "аліме́нти"
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
"tags": [
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"word": "alimoni"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the means to support life",
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"neuter"
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"word": "onderhoud"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "the means to support life",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "dagelijks brood"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the means to support life",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "levensonderhoud"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the means to support life",
"word": "toimeentulo"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the means to support life",
"word": "elanto"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the means to support life",
"word": "elatus"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "trofeía",
"sense": "the means to support life",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
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"word": "τροφεία"
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"sense": "the means to support life",
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"word": "ailiúnas"
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"code": "la",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "srédstva k suščestvovániju",
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