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- adjective Not
married . - noun A person who is not married.
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Examples
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Advocates for gay marriage insist that such a reform is necessary to acquire many long-denied rights, yet virtually all those civil rights have been won in Europe through “domestic partner” laws and in the majority of major companies in the United States, which give full benefits to nonmarried domestic partners.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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The employers most likely to drop the benefits were those that offer them only to same-sex couples; many firms offer benefits to heterosexual nonmarried couples as well.
Gay Couples Losing Perks Joann S. Lublin 2011
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The same goes for partnerships, defined as enterprises with two or more nonmarried owners.
Setting Up a Business Structure Sarah E. Needleman 2010
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People living alone and nonmarried couple families are among the fastest-growing in suburbs.
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The employers most likely to drop the benefits were those that offer them only to same-sex couples; many firms offer benefits to heterosexual nonmarried couples as well.
Gay Couples Losing Perks Joann S. Lublin 2011
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People living alone and nonmarried couple families are among the fastest-growing in suburbs.
Suburbs Losing Young Whites To Cities, Brookings Institution Finds 2010
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"Yet by supporting marriage in order to get material benefits, we fail to ask whether basing benefits on marital status and whether the class bias involved in the current distribution of benefits are fair [...] it is important to remember that all nonmarried people (or more accurately all people without domestic partnership or marriage benefits) subsidize the relationships of married people, or those who receive domestic partner benefits."
Bella DePaulo: Challenges to the Privileging of Married People, from Across the Ideological Spectrum 2010
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By the early 1970s, however, the privacy right seemed to be expanding in some ways to pertain to nonmarried individuals.
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008
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"Older people in nonmarried relations work harder at it and enjoy it more."
Fewer Middle-Aged Americans Say Extramarital Sex Is Wrong: Study 2010
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People living alone and nonmarried couple families are among the fastest-growing in suburbs.
Suburbs Losing Young Whites To Cities, Brookings Institution Finds 2010
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