at-home

[ at-hohm ]

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noun

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

adjective

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.

Origin of at-home

First recorded in 1740–45

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How to use at-home in a sentence

The at-home genetics testing company 23andme, established in 2006, helps people learn more about their “DNA relatives.”
Nothing Says I Love You Like Data | The Daily Beast | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
This at-home blood test kit gives a full reading of antioxidant, fatty acid, or vitamin panels.
Nothing Says I Love You Like Data | The Daily Beast | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
at-home caretakers are eligible for Medicaid waivers, which allow benefits regardless of income.
Medicaid Will Give You Money for At-Home Care, but You Might Wait Years | Elizabeth Picciuto | December 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
At first, she seemed content to be an overachieving stay-at-home mom.
From Baltimore Ravens Cheerleader to Mrs. Robinson | Brandy Zadrozny | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Only 42 of these women had planned on being stay-at-home mothers in the first place.
Don’t Be Fooled by Apple and Facebook, Egg Freezing Is Not a Benefit | Samantha Allen | October 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

Doesn't it spur you on to feel how much we have to learn and how ignorant we are in our stay-at-home villages?
Round the Wonderful World | G. E. Mitton
Until he went to Tilliedrum Jamie had been more a stay-at-home boy than most.
A Window in Thrums | J. M. Barrie
You are the most stay-at-home person by way of a gentleman that I ever heard of.
An Old Man's Love | Anthony Trollope
But in stay-at-home families, though the evenings are pleasant, I think they are seldom ideal.
Girls and Women | Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}
A penny a day does not seem such an insufficient minimum wage to a traveler, as it does to a stay-at-home person.
Humanly Speaking | Samuel McChord Crothers

British Dictionary definitions for at-home

at-home

noun

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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with at-home

at-home

In one's own residence, town, or country. For example, Mary was not at home when I called, or Tourists in a foreign country often behave more rudely than they do at home. This idiom was first recorded in a ninth-century treatise.

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