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prenuptial agreement noun

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Definition

an official document signed by two people before they get married which says what will happen to their possessions and/or children if they divorce (= officially stop being married)
He asked her to sign a prenuptial agreement when they got engaged.

(Definition of prenuptial agreement noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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