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marriageable age

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meanings of marriageableand age


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marriageable
adjective
uk /ˈmær.ɪ.dʒə.bəl/ us /ˈmer.ɪ.dʒə.bəl/
suitable ...
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age
noun
uk /eɪdʒ/ us /eɪdʒ/
the period of time someone has been alive or something ...
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Examples of marriageable age


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If they have any children of marriageableage, the household will receive ample attention.
Such women had to be of marriageableage and either unmarried or widowed.
They are both of marriageableage.
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High mortality also played a significant role because many fathers died before their sons reached marriageableage.
Both are of marriageableage.
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The family with no sons or one whose only sons were still children would view a marriageableage daughter very differently.
In all probability the numbers in the younger age groups will be further augmented by future immigration as they grow to marriageableage.
There are now more men in the marriageableage groups than there are women.
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For all others the marriageableage remains as it is at present, at 16.
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Those men are roughly of marriageableage and most of them are white.
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Those born then are coming to marriageableage and young people are marrying earlier these days.
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Using census data, they count numbers reaching marriageableage, divorcing and living longer.
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The marriageableage is 17 with consent but 18 otherwise.
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The marriageableage for women was also raised to fifteen.
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Both of his children are of marriageableage.
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We are entering an era where women may be discriminated against even more simply because they are of marriageableage.
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This can be advanced as an argument for reducing the gap in years between physical maturity and marriageableage.
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It often happens that a daughter remains at home to look after her parents until she passes the marriageableage.
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They therefore take account of the change in the population of marriageableage, and in divorce rates.
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We are surely talking only about people of marriageableage; we are not talking about youngsters under 18.
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Of course, the fact that she may remarry is taken into account almost always if she is of marriageableage.
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But time will pass, and in five or six years these teenagers will begin to reach marriageableage.
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In the past, the slight excess of males at birth was abolished within a few years by higher mortality, so that there was an excess of females of marriageableage.
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