marriage of convenience

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   a marriage for expediency rather than love

   Broadermarriage

Questions about marriage of convenience

What does marriage of convenience mean?

marriage of convenience means "a marriage for expediency rather than love".

Is marriage of convenience a common word?

marriage of convenience is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.