marriage settlement

1. 1.

   a prenuptial agreement or contract

   Synonymsmarriage contract

   Broadercontract

Questions about marriage settlement

What does marriage settlement mean?

marriage settlement means "a prenuptial agreement or contract".

What is another word for marriage settlement?

Close synonyms include marriage contract. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is marriage settlement a common word?

marriage settlement 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.