In a sentence
Six example sentences with spouse, each labelled with its topic.
Most pensions let you name a spouse to receive payments after your death, but the form must be filed early.
Finance
Her spouse handled visas and vaccinations while she booked the trains, and neither of them enjoyed the other's job.
Travel
Researchers asked each spouse to rate the same argument separately, and the two accounts rarely agreed about who started it.
Psychology
A spouse cannot be made to testify against the other in most courts, a rule older than the modern jury.
Law
Each candidate's spouse now campaigns separately, covering twice as many towns in the final week of the race.
Politics
When one spouse loses a job, the other often takes extra shifts, which is why household income falls less than wages do.
Economics
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- Business Word List (part 2)Authoritative
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