separate maintenance
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The separate maintenance loan is intended to cover accommodation, food, books and equipment.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025
Students in Northern Ireland from less well-off backgrounds can also get a separate maintenance grant of up to £3,475, depending on their household income.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025
Most inspection reports will separate maintenance work from more pressing matters.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2022
Last week Wives Mae Murray and Mary McCormic, convinced that their absent husbands are highly solvent, were in court suing them respectively for divorce and separate maintenance.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But no matter, she brings me an estate that will afford me a separate maintenance.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan