🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

위자료

Pronunciation / Transliteration: wijaryo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Alimony/ˈæl.ɪ.mə.ni/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 이혼 후 매달 위자료를 지급해야 한다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A legal obligation on a person to provide financial support to their spouse after separation or divorce.

    "The court ordered him to pay monthly alimony to his former spouse."
  2. 2

    Financial payments made under such an order or agreement.

    "Her alimony payments helped cover her housing and living expenses during the transition."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin word 'alimonia', meaning nourishment or sustenance, stemming from 'alere' (to nourish). It entered English in the 17th century through legal terminology to denote financial support paid by one spouse to another following a divorce or separation.

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