Alimony

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Alimony \Al"i*mo*ny\, n. [L. alimonia, alimonium, nourishment,
     sustenance, fr. alere to nourish.]
     1. Maintenance; means of living.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Law) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's


        estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or
        legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same.
        --Wharton. Burrill.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  alimony
       n : court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after
           they are separated [syn: {maintenance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "alimony":
     aid, alimentation, allotment, allowance, annuity, assistance,
     bounty, bread, bread and butter, depletion allowance, dole,
     fellowship, financial assistance, grant, grant-in-aid,
     guaranteed annual income, help, keep, livelihood, maintenance,
     old-age insurance, pecuniary aid, pension, price support,
     public assistance, public welfare, relief, retirement benefits,
     scholarship, stipend, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence,
     subvention, support, sustenance, tax benefit, welfare, welfare aid,
     welfare payments