marriage of convenience

English

Etymology

Calque of French mariage de convenance.

Noun

marriage of convenience (plural marriages of convenience)

1. A marriage motivated by some reason other than love; especially one conducted to obtain entry or residence rights in a country.

Hyponyms

• sham marriage

Translations

marriage motivated by some reason other than love

• Arabic: زواج مصلحة‎ m (zawej maslaha)
• Bulgarian: брак по сметка (brak po smetka)
• Catalan: casament de conveniència m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 權宜婚姻／权宜婚姻 (quányí hūnyīn), 政治婚姻 (zhèngzhì hūnyīn)

• Czech: sňatek z rozumu m
• Danish: fornuftsægteskab n
• Estonian: mugavusabielu
• Finnish: mukavuusavioliitto
• French: mariage de convenance (fr) m
• German: Vernunftehe (de) f, Konvenienzehe f, Scheinehe (de) f, Zweckehe f, Vernunftheirat (de) f
• Hungarian: érdekházasság (hu)
• Japanese: 政略結婚 (せいりゃくけっこん, seiryaku kekkon)
• Korean: 정략결혼 (jeongnyakgyeolhon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fornuftsekteskap

• Portuguese: casamento de conveniência m, casamento por conveniência m
• Romanian: căsătorie de conveniență (ro) f
• Russian: брак по расчёту m (brak po rasčótu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брак из користи m

  Roman: brak iz koristi m

• Slovak: formálne manželstvo n
• Spanish: matrimonio de conveniencia m
• Swedish: konvenansäktenskap n
• Turkish: mantık evliliği

Further reading

• Marriage of convenience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia