| 单词 | lone mother/father/parent etc |
| 释义 | lone mother/father/parent etclone mother/father/parent etc British EnglishBrEONLY someone who looks after their children on their own 单身母亲/单身父亲/单亲等 SYN single a lone-parent family 单亲家庭 Examples from the Corpus lone mother/father/parent etc• One Parent Benefit is paid to 75% of lone parents.• We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort - as we do now.• Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.• Sheila is a lone parent with two children, aged 13 and 15.• More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week. → lone mother/father/parent etc at lone(1) |
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