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homemaker

/hohm-mey-ker/US // ˈhoʊmˌmeɪ kər //UK // (ˈhəʊmˌmeɪkə) //

家庭主妇,主妇,家庭妇女,家政

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who manages the household of his or her own family, especially as a principal occupation.
    • : a person employed to manage a household and do household chores for others, as for the sick or elderly.

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Examples

  • His father ran a chain of hat stores, and his mother was a homemaker.

  • His father worked in a bottle factory, and his mother was a homemaker.

  • His father was a shoe salesman, and his mother was a homemaker who was born in Scotland while her own mother was en route to the United States, immigrating from what is now Ukraine.

  • His father was a streetcar operator, and his mother was a homemaker.

  • Medieval cooks and homemakers were often noted as burning their fires constantly, with a never-ending pot of soup at the ready.

  • There was Carol White, a ho-hum homemaker who finds herself besieged by multiple chemical sensitivity in Safe.

  • Rubenstein grew up in Baltimore, where his father made $7,000 a year working for the post office, and his mother was a homemaker.

  • Her father was a sociology and education professor at UCLA; her mother was “a homemaker with creative tendencies.”

  • She was a homemaker for 13 years, until all the last child was in school full-time, then plunged into law.

  • Nezar too was a homemaker in Homs who arrived in Jordan last year.

  • It is a problem usually very difficult of solution by the homemaker of small means.

  • But what is the homemaker of limited means, who must have some help, to do under present conditions?

  • It may seem that, in this article, I am more concerned for the “hired help” than the homemaker for whom I am ostensibly writing.

  • No land offers better or freer social conditions to the homemaker.

  • The good wife and homemaker says to her children, "Where thou goest, I will go."