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alimony

 
 
/ˈælɪməni/ noun [U]

Translation

money that someone must pay regularly to their wife or husband after the marriage has ended
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(Definition of alimony noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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