adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a married couple
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Under the new rules, a married couple will now receive £20 a week extra.
a newly married couple (= having married not long ago )
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Many newly married couples cannot afford to buy their own homes.
engaged to be married
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She is engaged to be married .
happily married
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I’m a happily married man.
married quarters (= houses where soldiers live with their wives )
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Most of the officers live in married quarters .
marry/get married in a church
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I’d like to get married in a church.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
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Daisy already married - but a runaway marriage, a family scandal.
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You see, he was already married , with a child.
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She fell in love with him but, on discovering he was already married , she retired to a nunnery.
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Trouble is, of course, they're already married .
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There's Jane Eyre where the wedding is interrupted by some one who says the groom is already married .
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She was only 16; he was already married to the last schoolgirl he had eloped with, poor Harriet Westbrook.
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The problem was finding such a man who wasn't already married .
happily
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You asked me how I stayed happily married and I replied.
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He has a daughter of 23 by his first marriage and is happily married to his second wife Jenny.
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When they met she was happily married to her first husband Laurie Brown, a member of Manchester United's back-room staff.
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Pagan and I are happily married , with babies as well as jobs.
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She was a large lady, happily married with three kids, without a chemical trace of inhibition in her body.
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He was a quiet, apparently happily married man with no enemies.
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Once again, I was restless and unfulfilled, though I now had a successful business and was happily married .
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He was a short, energetic man, modest in his tastes and happily married , though childless.
never
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The figures actually suggest that of the women compositors employed in 1910, at least 25 percent never married .
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There were nevertheless many women who never married .
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MacLauchlan never married , lodging in the Lambeth and Clapham areas of London when not engaged on archaeological work.
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Amongst never married women the period increased only slightly from 18 months in 1979 to 19 months in 1987.
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He never married , and died 4 August 1701.
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Hannah never married and never had a close relationship, but she had her dreams.
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Mary and Anna never married , however.
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It's why he never married again, never courted female company.
newly
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But no one there had ever heard of the Arektenje area of Jaffa where the newly married Damiani had bought his home.
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It was hardly a situation conducive to producing a relaxed and committed rugby player, just newly married .
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She might be only acting the part of a young lady newly married , but she did it superbly well.
now
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He is now married and lives in Kent.
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Photographed when engaged, she is now married to Peter Bell from Kilmarnock.
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He is now married and is the proud father of a three week old baby boy.
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Richard now married Berengaria in a wedding long remembered for its splendour.
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All the friends she had made at school were now married .
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The parents of these children were now married .
■ NOUN
couple
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The proportion of out-of-wedlock births has increased so much mainly because the number of births to married couples has sharply declined.
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Accommodation for married couples is scarce and expensive.
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As a result, a single pensioner has lost £17 a week under the Government while a married couple have lost £28.
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For instance, a married couple may want a bigger and better house, so they are motivated into purchasing one.
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By 1988, married couples with children made up no more than 26 percent of all households in Britain.
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This poster of 1906 lists opportunities for families, married couples , single people and boys.
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Imagine a married couple who are estranged from one another, yet who both wistfully long for reconciliation.
life
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There is no way Dona could have left her married life and children behind to sail the seas with pirate lover.
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She had been a virgin when she married , had stayed faithful all her married life .
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Ironically, during that time, Charles and Diana enjoyed the happiest period of their married life .
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As women increasingly spend some of their married lives in careers, it follows also that they have more economic power.
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It was all so different from her own married life .
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Meanwhile the man of course, is leading his married life and is hardly affected at all.
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Our married life has truly begun, and every day it will get better.
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Admittedly they were only nineteen, but surely, he reasoned, there must be more to married life than this?
man
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A married man with two children!
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In May, conscription was extended to married men .
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The General Household Survey in 1979 found that only 20 percent of economically active married men supported a dependent wife and children.
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A married man living with his wife may also be able to claim part of the married couple's allowance.
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Not only boys either, men too, married men, old enough to know better.
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The married men did, after all, tend to get more consideration.
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As a married man over 75 and on a modest income, you are allowed the first £6,875 free of tax.
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Over the past 12 years, the take-home pay of a married man with two children has increased by more than 30 percent.
people
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At the beginning of the century, there were more single than married people .
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No, it wasn't a conventional marriage but we gave each other what a lot of married people don't: freedom.
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Meanwhile he looked with bewilderment at the married people he knew, particularly his parents.
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What do married people tell each other?
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Isn't that what old married people do, to avoid trouble?
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The decision to include married people in this was both practically and theoretically crucial.
woman
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This gave married women independent status as taxpayers, i.e. they could control their own tax affairs.
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Older married women are less likely than men to receive a National Insurance retirement pension in their own right.
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In those days married women didn't work, so for her it was the ideal solution.
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In contrast, if a married woman were unfaithful to her husband she might have to die for Izzat to be restored.
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In particular, there are complex rules which disadvantage married women .
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She is a married woman of intelligence and maturity with twenty years' experience.
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In this country, married women with no work outside the home are entitled to precisely nothing!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After thirty-two years of married life Barbara had no illusions left.
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Geraldine was married to the richest man in France and still pretended she couldn't afford a new outfit.
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Is Robertson your married name?
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More and more married women were returning to the workplace.
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Richard is happily married with two young children.
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We've been married for 25 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aged 53, married , no children.
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And Liz is married to my brother, after all.
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But now she's all married and stuff.
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But the scale of these effects, especially for married men, is small.
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I went downstairs and they told me they had just got married .
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Nick personable, Eton educated, slightly big boyish looking is 30 and married with two very young children.
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There is no way Dona could have left her married life and children behind to sail the seas with pirate lover.