Meaning of marriage of convenience | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
2. A big tent alliance of disparate factions (such as political factions).
   figuratively

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Examples

“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.”

“Libertarians and the Religious Right make odd bedfellows, but that marriage of convenience in the Republican Party has stuck around since the 1980s.”

“Kofi Annan’s marriage of convenience is likely to last only as long as it takes the political players to build up war chests ahead of another electoral bout.”

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