"reverse dowry" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1978, Carol Meyers, “The Roots of Restriction: Women in Early Israel”, in The Biblical Archaeologist, volume 41, number 3, page 98:",
          "text": "This bride-gift, a kind of reverse dowry, indicates that grooms had to compete for relatively few brides.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 September 16, Ned Zeman, “Houston's Sleazy Saga”, in Newsweek:",
          "text": "Doug's mother, Lynn Sakowitz Wyatt, reveals that before her father, Bernard, would allow her to marry Coastal Corp. chairman Oscar Wyatt, he negotiated a reverse dowry giving him $1 million in corporate stock.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride, in some cultures."
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          "money",
          "money"
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          "valuables",
          "valuables"
        ],
        [
          "bridegroom",
          "bridegroom"
        ],
        [
          "bride",
          "bride"
        ],
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          "culture",
          "culture"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bride price"
        },
        {
          "word": "dower"
        },
        {
          "word": "reverse-dowry"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "reverse dowry"
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    {
      "form": "reverse dowries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1978, Carol Meyers, “The Roots of Restriction: Women in Early Israel”, in The Biblical Archaeologist, volume 41, number 3, page 98:",
          "text": "This bride-gift, a kind of reverse dowry, indicates that grooms had to compete for relatively few brides.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 September 16, Ned Zeman, “Houston's Sleazy Saga”, in Newsweek:",
          "text": "Doug's mother, Lynn Sakowitz Wyatt, reveals that before her father, Bernard, would allow her to marry Coastal Corp. chairman Oscar Wyatt, he negotiated a reverse dowry giving him $1 million in corporate stock.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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        ],
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          "bridegroom",
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        ],
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          "bride",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bride price"
    },
    {
      "word": "dower"
    },
    {
      "word": "reverse-dowry"
    }
  ],
  "word": "reverse dowry"
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