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shidduch

/ ˈʃɪ»åÉ™³æ /

noun

    1. an arranged marriage
    2. the arrangement of a marriage
  1. any negotiated agreement
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of shidduch1

from Hebrew: see shadchan
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“Bernie needed Joel more than Joel needed Bernie, but it was a good shidduch,†said longtime Democratic Jewish activist and political consultant Steve Rabinowitz, using the Yiddish term for a Jewish arranged marriage.

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The North Slope storefront, previously a Pilates studio, was a shidduch — a match.

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She's a matchmaker, in Hebrew a shidduch.

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"I am trying to drive into this, Elkan," Scheikowitz replied: "I have got for you an elegant Shidduch."

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So, Scheikowitz," he said, "you are trying to fix up a Shidduch between Elkan and Miss Maslik without telling me a word about it, and you get the whole thing so mixed up that it is a case of trying to sit between two chairs!

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