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homemaker
[ hohm-mey-ker ]
noun
- a person who manages the household of their 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.
homemaker
/ ˈhəʊmˌmeɪkə /
noun
- a person, esp a housewife, who manages a home
- a social worker who manages a household during the incapacity of the housewife
Sensitive Note
Derived Forms
- ˈhomeˌmaking, nounadjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of homemaker1
Example Sentences
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."
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