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die Zweckehe (-n) marriage of convenience
Es ist nicht mehr die große Liebe, es ist eine Zweckehe geworden.
It is no longer the great love. It has become a marriage of convenience.
(About the continuing split between East and West Germans, in a review of the book Typisch Ossi, typisch Wessi by Michael Jürgs and Angela Elis.)
Related: der Zweck purpose, zweckfrei pure (research), die Zwecke tack, nail, thumbtack
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