marriage of convenience
Loveless practical union
A marriage of convenience is one entered for practical benefit rather than love—typically for immigration status, financial advantage, or social respectability.
The phrase extends to any alliance formed for mutual advantage rather than genuine affinity: The merger was a marriage of convenience between two struggling competitors.
- hypergamyUnion with social superior
- ringClosed curve shape
- wedding bandSpousal jewelry worn daily
- civil unionLegal spousal alternative
- paperPressed pulp for writing
matrimony · contract · union · wedlock · matchmaker · distance · cold feet · document · spousal rights · prenuptial agreement · green card · immigration status · license · silence · chill · misalliance · social climbing · vows
- marriagebride, groom, wedding, husband, wife
- rom-comrom-com, romantic comedy, meet cute, meet-cute, love triangle
- romance fictionlove stories, romance novel, romance novels, contemporary romance, romantic fiction
- wedding tropeselopement, runaway bride, shotgun wedding, wedding crasher, Vegas wedding
- romance novelsbodice ripper, Harlequin, happily ever after, rake, historical romance
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
marriage of conveniencelove match
Marriage for passion, not practicality
love marriage · true love · affair of the heart · whirlwind romance · elopement
marriage, married, marries, marrying, marriageable, unmarried, remarriage, intermarriage, convenience