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Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
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Meaning of "alimony" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ALIMONY

From Latin alimōnia sustenance, from alere to nourish.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ALIMONY

alimony  [ˈælɪmənɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALIMONY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Alimony is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ALIMONY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

alimony

Alimony

Alimony (also called aliment (Scotland), maintenance (England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Canada), spousal support (U.S., Canada) and spousal maintenance (Australia)) is a legal obligation on a person to provide financial support to his or her spouse before or after marital separation or divorce. The obligation arises from the divorce law or family law of each country. Traditionally, alimony was paid by a husband to his former wife, but since the 1970s there have been moves in many Western countries towards gender equality with a corresponding recognition that a former husband may also be entitled to alimony from his former wife.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALIMONY


acrimony
ˈækrɪmənɪ
agrimony
ˈæɡrɪmənɪ
anemone
əˈnɛmənɪ
antimony
ˈæntɪmənɪ
ceremony
ˈsɛrɪmənɪ
Chamonix
ˈʃæmənɪ
Germany
ˈdʒɜːmənɪ
harmony
ˈhɑːmənɪ
hegemony
hɪˈɡɛmənɪ
matrimony
ˈmætrɪmənɪ
palimony
ˈpælɪmənɪ
parsimony
ˈpɑːsɪmənɪ
patrimony
ˈpætrɪmənɪ
querimony
ˈkwerɪmənɪ
Romani
ˈrɒmənɪ
Romany
ˈrɒmənɪ
sanctimony
ˈsæŋktɪmənɪ
simony
ˈsaɪmənɪ
testimony
ˈtɛstɪmənɪ
Yemeni
ˈjɛmənɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALIMONY

alikeness
aliment
alimental
alimentary
alimentary canal
alimentary tract
alimentation
alimentative
alimentiveness
alimonied
aline
alineation
alinement
aliner
aliped
aliphatic
aliquant
aliquot
alisma
alismaceous

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALIMONY

accrued alimony
award ceremony
awards ceremony
cinnamony
close harmony
disharmony
four-part harmony
graduation ceremony
hemp agrimony
holy matrimony
induction ceremony
inharmony
launching ceremony
marriage ceremony
mony
New Harmony
opening ceremony
Oscars ceremony
stand on ceremony
without ceremony

Synonyms and antonyms of alimony in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ALIMONY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «alimony» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of alimony

Translation of «alimony» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALIMONY

Find out the translation of alimony to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of alimony from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «alimony» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

赡养费
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pensión alimenticia
570 millions of speakers

English

alimony
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गुजारा भत्ता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النفقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

алименты
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pensão alimentícia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভরণপোষণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pension
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tunjangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Alimente
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

扶養手当
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

위자료
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Alimony
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phụ giúp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஜீவனாம்சம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोटगी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nafaka
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

alimenti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

alimenty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

аліменти
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pensia alimentară
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διατροφής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onderhoud
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

underhåll
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

underholdsbidrag
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of alimony

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALIMONY»

The term «alimony» is quite widely used and occupies the 47.902 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALIMONY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «alimony» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «alimony» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about alimony

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7 QUOTES WITH «ALIMONY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word alimony.
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Don Adams
I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.
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Arthur Baer
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
3
John Barrymore
You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
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Linda Evans
I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.
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Diane Garnick
In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.
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Dick Schaap
Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
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Gay Talese
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALIMONY»

Discover the use of alimony in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to alimony and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The 10 Biggest Legal Mistakes Women Can Avoid: How to ...
Alimony and Child Support You and your lawyer also need to negotiate alimony and child support. Taxes are important here: alimony is taxable to you and deductible by your husband, and child support is not taxable to you and not deductible ...
Marilyn Barrett, 2000
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Alimony Blues
He couldn't pay alimony either. That was yet another lesson learned. The court order went on to say, “The former husband's financial statement shows he has managed to borrow $38,000 to support himself, yet he has failed to pay any alimony ...
John Phantom, 2014
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Child Support and Alimony ....
DEFINITIONS RELATED TO CHILD SUPPORT, ALIMONY, AND PROPERTY SETTLEMENTS Child support. Data on award of child support payments were collected from women 15 years or older with children under 21 years of age whose ...
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Women and the Law: Leaders, Cases, and Documents
Alimony simply builds on that concept. Following divorce, an award of alimony usually ceases when the spouse receiving support remarries or begins cohabiting with another partner. Critics contend that alimony decisions may also reflect and ...
Ashlyn K. Kuersten, 2003
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Federal Income Tax: Examples & Explanations
disproportionately high amounts of alimony (referred to in §71 as excess alimony payments) paid in the first two years. The excess alimony paid in years one and two is recaptured by requiring the payor spouse to include it in income in year ...
Joseph Bankman, Thomas D. Griffith, Katherine Pratt, 2008
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Working with Divorcing Spouses: How to Help Clients Navigate ...
If the wife was at fault, she received no alimony. Although permanent alimony was originally a commonplace feature of fault-based divorce, it has persisted into no-fault divorce. The third type of alimony is alimony for a term of years, either ...
Sam Margulies, 2007
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The Complete QDRO Handbook: Dividing ERISA, Military, and ...
QDROs for child support or alimony by definition involve contingencies not usually relevant to property division QDROs. Alimony, for example, usually ends on the death of either the payor or the payee, or on the remarriage (and sometimes ...
David Clayton Carrad, 2009
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Family Law Services Handbook: The Role of the Financial Expert
c26 JWBT345-Glenn August 16, 2010 11:41 Printer Name: Yet to Come Ch. 26 Tax Issues of Child and Spousal Support 337 26.5 ALIMONY RECAPTURE Thus far we have discussed the general position regarding what constitutes an ...
Donald A. Glenn, Thomas F. Burrage, Donald DeGrazia, 2010
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Money and Divorce: The First 90 Days and After
To prevent tax abuse, the IRS Code has set up a test to prevent taxpayers from claiming nondeductible property transfers as deductible alimony, called the excess alimony recapture test or front-end loading test. To prevent nondeductible child ...
James J. Gross, Michael F. Callahan, 2006
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2012: For Preparing Your 2011 ...
The first step in planning the after-tax consequences of alimony is convincing a couple that they may have a common financial interest; the second is projecting future tax consequences. For example, assume that the husband is to make ...
J. K. Lasser, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALIMONY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term alimony is used in the context of the following news items.
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What we can learn about prenups from the Ben Affleck-Jennifer …
Essentially, the lesser-earning spouse can petition the courts for more alimony money or support of longer duration. Another possibility is that ... «Fortune, Jul 15»
2
Kamal's Ex-Wife Hits Back At Alimony Claims
Vani Ganapathy, renowned danseuse and Kamal Haasan's ex-wife, condemned Kamal's claims of going bankrupt and moving into a rented ... «Gulte, Jul 15»
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Kamal Haasan's Ex-wife Vani Ganapathy Hits Back at Him Over His …
She did not reveal the alimony that she received from Kamal Haasan. Vani Ganapathy said she maintained a dignified silence on it throughout ... «International Business Times, India Edition, Jul 15»
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Is it fair to pay alimony twice as long as the marriage?
To the editor: In the article about the recent judgment in which I have been ordered to continue to pay alimony beyond the durational limits ... «Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Jul 15»
5
Court rejects alimony of woman over extramarital affair
Afamily court has rejected a woman's petition seeking maintenance from her ex-husband. Shabnam (name changed), a 29-year-old who has ... «Ahmedabad Mirror, Jul 15»
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John Cleese Completes Alimony Payments To Ex-wife
British Comedian John Cleese Is Celebrating After Making His Final Alimony Payment In His Costly Divorce From His Third Wife Alyce Faye ... «Contactmusic.com, Jul 15»
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It's official: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have split
Many speculated that they were waiting until after the date to announce their separation because alimony laws in California are different once a ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
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Glenn Binder to pay more in alimony to his ex-wife than his monthly …
In court filings, Mr Binder accused Pawnee County District Judge Daniel Bryan Jr of abusing his power by ordering him to make alimony ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
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Glenn Binder: 95-Year-Old Retired Farmer Gets Divorced, Ordered …
But when Binder went to a Nebraska court to finalize terms of the split, a judge ordered that he pay $3,200 in monthly alimony to the ex-wife, ... «The Inquisitr, Jun 15»
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Retired farmer must pay more in alimony than monthly income …
Glenn Binder argued that Pawnee County District Judge Daniel Bryan Jr. abused his power by ordering an alimony payment that exceeds ... «Omaha World-Herald, Jun 15»

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