in-law

/ˈɪnˌlɔ/ n [C]

Definition

› a person you are related to by marriage, esp. the parents and other members of your husband’s or wife’s family: He’s spending the holiday with his in-laws.

(Definition of in-law n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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