alimonynoun [ U ]
uk/ˈæl.ɪ.mə.ni/us/ˈæl.ə.moʊ.ni/a regular amount of money that a law court orders a person to pay to his or her partner after a divorce (= the legal ending of a marriage)
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Costs & expenses
- admission
- aliment
- asking price
- carrying charge
- charge
- compensation
- corkage
- cost an arm and a leg/a small fortune idiom
- cost-of-living index
- damage
- dent
- flat rate
- indirect cost
- maintenance
- outlay
- price war
- running costs
- settlement
- stoppage
- worth
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Relationships: ending & divorce
Examples from literature
- She has a small income, but it does not appear that alimony was allowed her in the divorce proceedings.
- The alimony which had hitherto been allowed was no longer considered adequate. The discourse, though learned, was not edifying.
- The ninety and nine would have subjected me to the acid test of matrimony, with the later and inevitable alimony.
- The wife would find it out, there would be a row, with court proceedings, alimony and all the rest of it.
- There was no hope of getting alimony out of that man.