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separate maintenance

NOUN
divorce
Synonyms
STRONGEST
annulment breakup dissolution separation split
STRONG
breach break detachment disparateness dissociation disunion division divorcement partition rupture severance splitsville
WEAK
decree nisi dedomiciling parting of the ways
Antonyms
STRONG
agreement association attachment combination connection juncture union unity
WEAK
marriage

Example Sentences

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The separate maintenance loan is intended to cover accommodation, food, books and equipment.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025

A separate maintenance loan is intended to cover accommodation, food, books and equipment.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2024

Most inspection reports will separate maintenance work from more pressing matters.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2022

Last week Wives Mae Murray and Mary McCormic, convinced that their absent husbands are highly solvent, were in court suing them respectively for divorce and separate maintenance.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of them, the eldest, was killed in a fight, and the other, the younger, had a proud wife, and did not obey his father, and his father had to give him a separate maintenance.

From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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