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domestic system

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noun

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


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It could also encourage captains to give more opportunities for spin bowlers, who currently bowl just 22% of overs in England - the lowest of any domestic system.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2022

If Congress approves VanHerck’s $50-million request, part of the funds will go to the sensor component, a type of radar, for the proposed new domestic system.

From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2022

Ono apparently feels he benefits more from hard training in Japan’s peerless domestic system than on tournament trips to far-flung locations, and his results are unquestionable.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2021

And nothing will change for international custody cases until the domestic system that favors sole custody changes, experts say. 

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2017

It was not easy to obtain a sufficiency of good hands for the power-looms, because the operatives, who had acquired their habits under the domestic system, hated factory life.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various