female spouse

collocation in English

meaningsoffemaleandspouse

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female
adjective
uk
/ˈfiː.meɪl/us
/ˈfiː.meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that can give birth to young or ...
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spouse
noun[C]
uk
/spaʊs/us
/spaʊs/
a person's husband ...
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(Definition offemaleandspousefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffemale spouse

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After all, a survivingfemalespouseis certainly the legitimate wife of the husband who has died intestate.
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The term is a legal phrase that is used in lieu of naming thefemalespouseof a male party to litigation.
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The term is gender neutral, whereas a male spouse is a husband and afemalespouseis a wife.
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Female spouses of cancer patients' may experience high level of psychological distress.
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Bowers married eleven years prior to her surgery, and remains married to herfemalespouse.
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Barrientos identifies a gender bias in the pension programme : whilst female spouses of covered males are entitled to a survivor pension, the entitlement is not extended to males.
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We have heard much about the terrible financial effect on female spouses, but not much about the effect on male spouses.
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I support the ending of discrimination between male and female spouses.
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The most grotesque example of public funds whose receipt will exclude male or female spouses from entering this country is housing benefit.
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The report points out the crucial need to ensure social cover for female spouses of farmers who earn an income, and indeed for temporary and migrant workers.
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