marriage equalitynoun [ U ]
USmarriage between two people of the same sex, thought of as being legally the same as, and of equal importance to, marriage between two people of opposite sexes
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Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
- adulteress
- affinal
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- be an item idiom
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- hear wedding bells idiom
- hitched
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- intermarriage
- marriage counseling
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- marriageable
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- marry in haste, repent at leisure idiom
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the situation in which two people of the same sex have the same legal right to marriage as two people of opposite sexes