Meaning & use
Prenuptial
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Occurring or existing before marriage, especially referring to a legal agreement made between partners before they wed.
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The couple signed a prenuptial agreement to protect their individual businesses.
Prenuptial counseling helped them talk through finances before the wedding.
A note on using this word
A "prenuptial agreement" is often shortened informally to "prenup," a term now common even outside legal contexts.
Words with a similar meaning
premarital
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Words with an opposite meaning
postnuptial
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