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sham marriages

sham marriages is the plural of sham marriage.

Meaning of sham marriage

Noun

sham marriage (plural sham marriages)

  1. A marriage of convenience conducted by two persons who do not intend to live as a couple, generally for the purpose of gaining some advantage arising from married status.
    Synonyms:
    fake marriage, false marriage, fictitious marriage, mock marriage, paper marriage

Questions about sham marriages

What is sham marriages the plural of?
Sham marriages is the plural of sham marriage.

Words near sham marriages in the dictionary

  1. sham
  2. sham Abraham
  3. sham Abram
  4. Sham Chun
  5. sham marriage
  6. sham marriages
  7. Sham Shui Po
  8. shama
  9. shamable
  10. shamably
  11. shamagh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sham marriages (page history and authors); sham marriage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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