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bigamy

noun/ˈbɪɡəmi/

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

The offence of going through a marriage ceremony while already lawfully married to another.

She was prosecuted for bigamy after investigators discovered that her first husband was still alive.

Topic: Criminal law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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