Associations to the word «Alimony»

Wiktionary

ALIMONY, noun. (legal) A court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person.
ALIMONY, noun. The means to support life.

Dictionary definition

ALIMONY, noun. Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated.

Wise words

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche