domestics
- plural of domestic.
Example Sentences
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TJ: My mother was the oldest of my grandmother’s nine children, so she was the one who went to work with my great-aunts when they were domestics.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023
As a result, these consumers flocked to imports like Corona and Heineken, as well as domestics like Budweiser, and, yes, Bud Light.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2023
He expects us to get preoccupied with inflation and other domestics issues.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2022
"It's family, everyone who's here, domestics, carers, caterers, everybody, it's in here," she says, patting her heart.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2019
Black women replaced them, accounting for 60 percent of all domestics in the 1940s, and dominated the field until other occupations began to open up to them.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
