displaced homemaker

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noun

a woman recently divorced, separated, or widowed after many years as a homemaker.

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Origin of displaced homemaker

First recorded in 1975–80

There was Carol White, a ho-hum homemaker who finds herself besieged by multiple chemical sensitivity in Safe.
Julianne Moore Is Oscar Gold in ‘Still Alice’|Marlow Stern|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“We are just displaced, but we are still in positions to attack wherever we want,” said Jihad Yar Wazir.
Taliban: We Slaughtered 100+ Kids Because Their Parents Helped America|Sami Yousafzai|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Rubenstein grew up in Baltimore, where his father made $7,000 a year working for the post office, and his mother was a homemaker.
Patriotic Philanthropy: Not an Oxymoron|Eleanor Clift|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She is an internally displaced woman who fled her home in Gbatala Bong County due to the high deaths from the Ebola outbreak.
Ebola Is Destroying Liberia’s Vaccination Program|Wade C.L. Williams|November 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The aid—mainly food and medical equipment—is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, and for hungry civilians.
U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS|Jamie Dettmer|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the balanced forces once displaced would be seen constantly to come to an equilibrium at a new point.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
There was no confusion, and already the hired men were busy with two great machines until Winston displaced two of them.
Winston of the Prairie|Harold Bindloss
He was a married man and his wife was still living at the time when he was displaced.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z|Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
Already, in England, a good fourth of the population had been displaced; and what were these displaced populations to do?
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair
A committee appointed by Connecticut displaced the bound at the southwest corner of Warwick.
A short history of Rhode Island|George Washington Greene