"marriage of convenience" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: marriages of convenience [plural]
Etymology: Calque of French mariage de convenance. Etymology templates: {{cal|en|fr|mariage de convenance}} Calque of French mariage de convenance Head templates: {{en-noun|marriages of convenience}} marriage of convenience (plural marriages of convenience)
  1. 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. Categories (topical): Marriage Hyponyms: sham marriage Translations (marriage motivated by some reason other than love): زَوَاج مَصْلَحَة (zawāj maṣlaḥa) [masculine] (Arabic), брак по сметка (brak po smetka) (Bulgarian), casament de conveniència [masculine] (Catalan), 權宜婚姻 (Chinese Mandarin), 权宜婚姻 (quányí hūnyīn) (Chinese Mandarin), 政治婚姻 (zhèngzhì hūnyīn) (Chinese Mandarin), sňatek z rozumu [masculine] (Czech), fornuftsægteskab [neuter] (Danish), mugavusabielu (Estonian), mukavuusavioliitto (Finnish), mariage de convenance [masculine] (French), Zweckehe [feminine] (German), Vernunftehe [feminine] (German), Konvenienzehe [feminine, rare] (German), érdekházasság (Hungarian), 政略結婚 (seiryaku kekkon) (alt: せいりゃくけっこん) (Japanese), 정략결혼 (jeongnyakgyeolhon) (Korean), fornuftsekteskap (Norwegian Bokmål), casamento de conveniência [masculine] (Portuguese), casamento por conveniência [masculine] (Portuguese), căsătorie de conveniență [feminine] (Romanian), брак по расчёту (brak po rasčótu) [masculine] (Russian), брак из користи [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), brak iz koristi [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), formálne manželstvo [neuter] (Slovak), matrimonio de conveniencia [masculine] (Spanish), konvenansäktenskap [neuter] (Swedish), mantık evliliği (Turkish)

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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "marriage motivated by some reason other than love",
      "word": "mantık evliliği"
    }
  ],
  "word": "marriage of convenience"
}

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