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wedlease

wedlease noun: a temporary marriage based on a contract, agreed to by both spouses, with renewal options.

Noun

wedlease (plural wedleases)

  1. A temporary marriage based on a contract, agreed to by both spouses, with renewal options.
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    Synonyms:
    misyar

Verb

wedlease (third-person singular simple present wedleases, present participle wedleasing, simple past and past participle wedleased)

  1. (rare) To marry impermanently.

Synonyms of wedlease

Forms of wedlease

Noun
pluralwedleases
Verb
third-person singular presentwedleases
present participlewedleasing
past participlewedleased
pastwedleased

Origin of wedlease

From wed + lease, introduced by a 2013 opinion piece in The Washington Post.

Questions about wedlease

What does wedlease mean?
Wedlease means a temporary marriage based on a contract, agreed to by both spouses, with renewal options.
What part of speech is wedlease?
Wedlease can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of wedlease?
The plural of wedlease is wedleases.

Words near wedlease in the dictionary

  1. Wedigs
  2. Wedin
  3. Wedins
  4. wedjat
  5. wedjats
  6. wedlease
  7. wedleased
  8. wedleases
  9. wedleasing
  10. wedlock
  11. wedlocked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wedlease (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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