pa‧li‧mo‧ny /ˈpæləməni, ˈpælɪməni $ -moʊni/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: pal + alimony]
especially American English an amount of money that a law court orders someone to pay regularly to a former partner that they were living with but were not married to

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