alimony
noun/ˈælɪməni/
/ˈælɪməʊni/
[uncountable] (especially North American English)- the money that a court orders somebody to pay regularly to their former wife, husband or partner when the marriage or civil union is ended
- Divorced people paying alimony can receive tax relief.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAlimony is used before these nouns:- payment
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘nourishment, means of subsistence’): from Latin alimonia ‘nutriment’, meaning nourishment, from alere ‘nourish’.Definitions on the go
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