marriage–industrial complex
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English
42
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
7
Syllables
16
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The totality of businesses such as wedding planners, bridal registries, specialized caterers, bridal wear stores, etc. that exist for assisting with holding a wedding.
noun
The set of American institutions such as therapists, self-help books, support groups, etc., designed to respond to adultery.
Example Sentences
- "Even when you want to do it for yourself, outside of the marriage industrial complex, it's practically impossible."
- "Also on the table was a developing critique of "matrimania" – the excessive hyping of marriage and coupling – and the concomitant multibillion-dollar marriage industrial complex."
- "They were eschewing the catered cakes, goodie bags, and hired DJs of the marriage-industrial complex for a simple ceremony followed by a potluck picnic."
- "The growth of the marriage-industrial complex has not done much to slow the national divorce epidemic."
- "There are strict rules in the marriage industrial complex. Almost all these sites demand the adulterer confess every act of sex, every telephone conversation, and every detail of every assignation."
- "Druckerman relays the story of Julia, whose urban, liberal background does not meet the profile of most marriage-industrial complex supporters, but who has nonethelss mannaged to absorb the values and even the narrative of the marriage-industrial complex:"