spouse

Definition

Examples

Employees may bring their spouse to the annual dinner at no charge.

Word Family

Synonyms

• partnera person's partner in marriage
• matethe officer below the master on a commercial ship

Collocations

• Easy husband or spouse
  to husband or spouse, meaning to use cautiously and frugally
• Medium health insurance coverage for spouse and dependents
  describing health insurance coverage for spouse and dependents (a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease)
• Hard surviving spouse pension entitlements
  to surviving spouse pension entitlements, meaning to continue to live through hardship or adversity
• Very Hard estranged spouse contesting the estate distribution
  to estranged spouse contesting the estate distribution, meaning to remove from customary environment or associations