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; for example, one conducted to obtain residence rights in a country, for financial gain, or for political purposes.
   • 1988 April 23, Adam Starchild, “Personal Advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

     Widely published author and business consultant would like a marriage of convenience with a woman who is an Irish or Austrian citizen. You get legal resident status in U.S. (and eligibility for student aid), and I get eligibility for prison furloughs plus the citizenship of a neutral country in a few years so I can start a new life elsewhere.

Hyponyms

• sham marriage

Translations

marriage motivated by some reason other than love

• Arabic: زَوَاج مَصْلَحَة m (zawāj maṣlaḥa)
• 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: Zweckehe f, Vernunftehe (de) f, (rare) Konvenienzehe 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 (sv) n
• Turkish: mantık evliliği

Further reading

• Marriage of convenience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia