domestic system

noun

a manufacturing system whereby workers make products in their own homes with materials supplied by entrepreneurs.

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The entire social and domestic system of American communities calls loudly for the reform of simplicity and congruity.

The children are the great test of this domestic system; they are happy, smiling, trustful, and yet no trouble.

She is the sun—the centre of a domestic system, and her children are like planets around her, reflecting her rays.

A complete change in the domestic system of the palace was wrought suddenly.

The guild system of manufacture was gradually replaced by the domestic system.

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