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Palimony is money that a court can order one person to pay, regularly, to a former partner after they split up, even though they were never married. They had been living together as a couple. The word is mainly American, and it sounds like newspaper-and-court language. You will see it in stories about famous people. You will not hear it much in ordinary chat. Though actually, it is not a right that every couple has. It depends on the place, and on the story: did they promise to look after each other? did they share money as if they were married? Many countries, including Taiwan, do not use this word in court at all. People here still meet it in US news. It was coined as a kind of blend-joke on alimony, the older word for money paid after a marriage ends.
同居贍養費(美國法律用語。台灣法院通常不這樣叫;「贍養費」本身是給離婚配偶的。)
組成A blend of pal (“close friend,” here the partner you lived with) + alimony (money paid after a marriage ends). Coined in 1977 by the US lawyer Marvin Mitchelson in the case of his client Michelle Triola Marvin against the actor Lee Marvin.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
palimonynoun
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lawA form of alimony paid to a former partner in a nonmarital relationship.
- Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony… palimony… it's all financial. Love is an illusion.
- Audball's latest pickup didn't seem to care where they were, or anything at all about alimony, palimony, or child support […]
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。