Child support
Child support noun - Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to the other who has custody of the children after the parents are separated.
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Synonyms for Child support
Keep and child support are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Keep" instead a noun phrase "Child support".
Keep
Keep noun - The act or activity of keeping something in an existing and usually satisfactory condition.
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- With that said, she quickly realizes why her aunt and uncle wanted to keep her for the child support checks.
- In the Law & Order episode "Deadbeat" McCoy and Ross realize that a woman killed her child support dodging ex-husband to keep him from finding out that "his" son wasn't his.
Source: Let Off by the Detective - He does prove willing to risk it when circumstances conspire to keep him from the child support he needs to see her, though.
Source: Never Going Back to Prison
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