separate maintenance
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The separate maintenance loan is intended to cover accommodation, food, books and equipment.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025
A separate maintenance loan is intended to cover accommodation, food, books and equipment.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2024
Most inspection reports will separate maintenance work from more pressing matters.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2022
High Life Gloria Swanson, high-styled siren of the silents, trim and tiger-eyed at 46, fought her fifth husband* for high-styled support, went to court in Manhattan for separate maintenance of $1,000 a week.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Then, to be sure, I won't lay out some of it to make me easy for life: for I'll settle a separate maintenance upon ould mother Brulgruddery.
From John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts by Colman, George