ALIMONY in a Sentence

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1. Also, payer and payee can't file joint tax returns in the same year alimony is paid.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALIMONY
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alimony
 n.  payment by a husband to his divorced wife, or vice versa
Classic Sentence:
1  Her husband had given her the farm and she had managed to sell it, and with that and the alimony she had started a lunch-room at Bettsbridge and bloomed into activity and importance.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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Example Sentence:
1  Also, payer and payee can't file joint tax returns in the same year alimony is paid.
2  His ex - wife has upped the ante in her alimony suit against him.