domiciliary
Americanadjective
noun
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domiciliaries
plural
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of domiciliary
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The presumption is Anderson was a Connecticut domiciliary unless his estate can prove otherwise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
In the year to March 2020, there were 1,408 inspections of nursing and residential care homes and domiciliary care agencies.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
Each care home and domiciliary support service will be graded on four different aspects of care, but it will take two years for every home to be inspected and given a rating.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2025
The BBC has seen evidence of the payment to Alchita Care, the private domiciliary care home in Bradford that sponsored his family's visa.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2025
He hesitated, his zeal had evaporated; and the object of his domiciliary visit was almost lost sight of in the contemplation of the sweeper's broom and the flesh of the sacred cow.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
A couple with a two-story West Philadelphia rowhouse, contracted domiciliaries with an agency that cares for older citizens, agreed to take him in.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2021
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