separate maintenance
Example Sentences
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The separate maintenance loan is intended to cover accommodation, food, books and equipment.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025
Students in Northern Ireland from less well-off backgrounds can also get a separate maintenance grant of up to £3,475, depending on their household income.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
Most inspection reports will separate maintenance work from more pressing matters.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
Finally their two-year marriage went all aflivver and Jill sued for separate maintenance, demanding all of their communal property.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have told him plainly that if he continues to be so suspicious, I'll leave him entirely, and make him allow me a separate maintenance.
From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Thomas Moore
