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Meanings of jointure in English
(Law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower.
Synonyms
Examples for "union"
Examples for "union"
1
Rugby union led the number of positive tests in Britain last year.
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The union said conditions being offered in mainland France were far superior.
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Last year, workers launched strikes demanding recognition of a new, independent union.
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The state teacher's union has given the thumbs-down to both ideas, however.
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Britain's exit from the EU ends 47 years of union with Europe.
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The next goal is uniting New York's large community of wired workers.
2
Now he understood the policy of the Indian bands in not uniting.
3
The sole means of uniting men is their union in the truth.
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We're already learning the importance of uniting in our opposition to Trump.
5
Paula's conceptual approach is twofold as well, uniting subjects separated by centuries.
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For Helmut Kohl, it was German unification and Germany's integration into Europe.
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But grand unification should produce a subtle trace in the universe today.
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The main objective of Sinn Fein is the unification of our country.
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Our country is still fighting for unification, for its own national identity.
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This is one of the great factors in the unification of man.
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The conjugation changes with every slight variation in the action spoken of.
2
Several bacterial pathogens utilize conjugation machines to export effector molecules during infection.
3
French: 24 pages of the Three Musketeers and third conjugation, irregular verbs.
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It was self-transmitted to the pSLL-cured strain by conjugation in solid culture.
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We demonstrate that nonsite-specific chemical conjugation of the same protein hinders cross-presentation.
Usage of jointure in English
1
The rents only sufficed to pay the charges and the widow's jointure.
2
The largest jointure moves her not, titles of honour cannot sway her.
3
A jointure had to be paid Lady Shelley of £500 a year.
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Medora, if Lizzie remembered rightly, had had no jointure or private fortune.
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But paying the Rani's jointure-thatwas a bitter pill, I grant you.
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The Castle of Montargis is my jointure; at Orleans there is no house.
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He felt the jointure with his feet-somerenewal or stoppage of the timber.
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His widow lives, in complete seclusion, at her jointure-house near Twickenham.
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She left L800 a year jointure, a son to inherit the whole estate.
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Sir Edward and Lady Elizabeth went to law about her jointure.
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You'll have to give up half your jointure for your life.
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His mother, indeed, who lived till ninety, had a jointure of six hundred.
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Then there is her jointure, something like ten thousand a year.
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But it will make up what Papa spent of your jointure.
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She must have a handsome jointure; but what are your grounds?'
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She was an Irish peer's widow, with a jointure of L2000 a year.
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