Suppose that
k is a non-negative integer and a bipartite multigraph
G is the union of
$$begin{aligned} N=leftlfloor frac{k+2}{k+1}nrightrfloor -(k+1) end{aligned}$$
matchings
(M_1,dots ,M_N), each of size
n. We show that
G has a rainbow matching of size
(n-k), i.e. a matching of size
(n-k) with all edges coming from different
(M_i)’s. Several choices of the parameter
k relate to known results and conjectures.