"outmarriage" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: outmarriages [plural]
Etymology: From out- + marriage; compare exogamy. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|out|marriage}} out- + marriage Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} outmarriage (countable and uncountable, plural outmarriages)
  1. Marrying outside one’s own ethnic, religious, or social group. Tags: countable, uncountable

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2000, Wayne Patterson, The Ilse: First-generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaiʻi, 1903-1973:",
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