an agency that provides introductions to single people seeking a marriage partner
Examples of 'marriage bureau' in a sentence
marriage bureau
The mission home became a de facto marriage bureau.
2019, 'The Women Who Waged War Against Sex Trafficking in San Francisco', Smithsonianhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-banded-together-fight-slavery-san-francisco-180972113/
The marriage bureau is very convenient in that respect.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
True stories from a 1940s marriage bureau 368pp.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
At the marriage bureau you wait for a hearing before an official who hands down a life sentence, of a sort.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
We follow a tentative love match between the head of a marriage bureau and her suitor.