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grey divorce

grey divorce is the alternative spelling of gray divorce.

Meaning of gray divorce

Noun

gray divorce (countable and uncountable, plural gray divorces)

  1. A divorce occurring between senior or elderly individuals, usually after a long-term marriage.
    • Gray divorce: blame the doctors for allowing people to live longer; blame the chemists with their little blue pills that allow for sexual rebirth; blame capitalism, which after all is a raging success that allows the privileged few to have serial marriages and divorces and pay for discarded wives...2018, Jocelyn Elise Crowley, “Praise For Gray Divorce”, in Gray Divorce: What We Lose and Gain from Mid-Life Splits, University of California Press, →ISBN

Forms of grey divorce

pluralgrey divorces

Questions about grey divorce

What is grey divorce the alternative spelling of?
Grey divorce is the alternative spelling of gray divorce.

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