adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a childless couple (= without children )
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Are childless couples more or less likely to split up?
a childless marriage
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It was a happy but childless marriage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
couple
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The threshold for childless couples under pensionable age was 57 percent above income support levels.
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Like many childless couples , Bobbie and Philip Bernisch wanted a baby.
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When the embryo was found to be male the Mastertons gave it away to a childless couple .
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It was on the outskirts of the village and belonged to an elderly, childless couple .
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It has all the latest technology to help childless couples , but not enough first-class semen.
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I think in vitro fertilisation is wonderful for childless couples , but I could never consider that option for us.
marriage
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It was a happy but childless marriage .
woman
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Some believe that a childless woman had been driven away from her husband's home so that he could marry again.
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Until now only single childless women aged 17-27 have been able to work as au pairs in Britain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a childless couple
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In a recent survey, the IoD found that 43% of its female members were childless .
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Looking around the modern world, she was not encouraged; powerful men are often childless .
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The woman Rebecca, my father's childless and rejected wife, haunts my early years.
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Until now only single childless women aged 17-27 have been able to work as au pairs in Britain.
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Women who make partner are disproportionately unmarried or divorced, and childless .