at-home

[ at-hohm ]

noun

1. Also at home. a reception of visitors at certain hours at one's home.

adjective

1. done or used in the home; intended for one's home:

   a new line of at-home computers; at-home assignments for free-lance workers.

at-home

noun

1. another name for open day
2. a social gathering in a person's home

Word History and Origins

Origin of at-home¹

First recorded in 1740–45

Example Sentences

Harris has tried to win over voters like Rice with proposals aimed at assuring the middle class, such as stipends for first-time homebuyers, a Medicare expansion for at-home nursing, an expansion of the child tax credit.

From Los Angeles Times

In the first series of The Gift, Jenny Kleeman looked at the extraordinary truths that can unravel when people take at-home DNA tests like Ancestry and 23andMe.

From BBC

The proliferation of at-home DNA tests has ushered in a tidal wave of skeletons shaken from closets, while generational shifts — and rising secularism — have made things that were once life-ruiningly shameful exponentially less taboo.

From Salon

Men benefit from parenthood in ways women do not—having a child doesn’t add nearly as much at-home work to their plates, but it does mean they get paid more.

From Slate

Coronavirus infections have come roaring back this year, prompting the Biden administration to renew one of its earliest responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Free at-home test kits delivered via the mail.

From Los Angeles Times

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