单词	childlessness
释义	childlesschild‧less /ˈtʃaɪldləs/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a childless couple EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS In a recent survey, the IoD found that 43% of its female members were childless. Looking around the modern world, she was not encouraged; powerful men are often childless. The woman Rebecca, my father's childless and rejected wife, haunts my early years. Until now only single childless women aged 17-27 have been able to work as au pairs in Britain. Women who make partner are disproportionately unmarried or divorced, and childless. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► childless couple/woman/marriage  It was a happy but childless marriage. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a childless couple (=without children)· Are childless couples more or less likely to split up? ► a childless marriage · It was a happy but childless marriage. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► couple · The threshold for childless couples under pensionable age was 57 percent above income support levels.· Like many childless couples, Bobbie and Philip Bernisch wanted a baby.· When the embryo was found to be male the Mastertons gave it away to a childless couple.· It was on the outskirts of the village and belonged to an elderly, childless couple.· It has all the latest technology to help childless couples, but not enough first-class semen.· I think in vitro fertilisation is wonderful for childless couples, but I could never consider that option for us. ► marriage · It was a happy but childless marriage. ► woman · Some believe that a childless woman had been driven away from her husband's home so that he could marry again.· Until now only single childless women aged 17-27 have been able to work as au pairs in Britain. having no childrenchildless couple/woman/marriage It was a happy but childless marriage. couples who deliberately remain childless—childlessness noun [uncountable]
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