alimony - payments make to an ex-spouse after divorce
Some sentence examples which use the word 'alimony'
The alimony that she is getting is insufficient for her.
About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about 30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near Moscow, the town house, and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts.
158) which speaks of the university as his "mother who brought him forth into the light of knowledge and nourished him with the alimony of all the sciences."