premarriage

• a word derived from marriage.
  marriage

  noun

  (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage:

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premarriage

The months-long premarriage counseling sessions he ran were strict.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2019

A premarriage contract, he suggests, might cover where the couple will live, who pays for what, how many children they will have.

From Time Magazine Archive

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