marriageable age
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmarriageableandage
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marriageable
adjective
uk/ˈmær.ɪ.dʒə.bəl/us/ˈmer.ɪ.dʒə.bəl/
suitable ...
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age
noun
uk/eɪdʒ/us/eɪdʒ/
the period of time someone has been alive or something ...
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(Definition ofmarriageableandagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If they have any children ofmarriageableage, the household will receive ample attention.
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Such women had to be ofmarriageableageand either unmarried or widowed.
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They are both ofmarriageableage.
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High mortality also played a significant role because many fathers died before their sons reachedmarriageableage.
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Both are ofmarriageableage.
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The family with no sons or one whose only sons were still children would view amarriageableagedaughter very differently.
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In all probability the numbers in the younger age groups will be further augmented by future immigration as they grow tomarriageableage.
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There are now more men in themarriageableagegroups than there are women.
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For all others themarriageableageremains as it is at present, at 16.
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Those men are roughly ofmarriageableageand most of them are white.
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Those born then are coming tomarriageableageand young people are marrying earlier these days.
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Using census data, they count numbers reachingmarriageableage, divorcing and living longer.
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Themarriageableageis 17 with consent but 18 otherwise.
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Themarriageableagefor women was also raised to fifteen.
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Both of his children are ofmarriageableage.
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We are entering an era where women may be discriminated against even more simply because they are ofmarriageableage.
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This can be advanced as an argument for reducing the gap in years between physical maturity andmarriageableage.
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It often happens that a daughter remains at home to look after her parents until she passes themarriageableage.
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They therefore take account of the change in the population ofmarriageableage, and in divorce rates.
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We are surely talking only about people ofmarriageableage; we are not talking about youngsters under 18.
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Of course, the fact that she may remarry is taken into account almost always if she is ofmarriageableage.
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But time will pass, and in five or six years these teenagers will begin to reachmarriageableage.
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In the past, the slight excess of males at birth was abolished within a few years by higher mortality, so that there was an excess of females ofmarriageableage.
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