home economics
- the art and science of home management.
- a college curriculum usually including studies in nutrition, the purchase, preparation, and service of food, interior design, clothing and textiles, child development, family relationships, and household economics.
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Origin of home economics
An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900
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The home-economics laboratory offers an opportunity for centers in which interesting and artistic groupings may be arranged.
The Teaching of Art Related to the HomeFederal Board for Vocational Education
Such centers in home-economics laboratories have been appropriately called appreciation centers.
The Teaching of Art Related to the HomeFederal Board for Vocational Education
In some schools, the separate cottage is used to house the home-economics department.
The Teaching of Art Related to the HomeFederal Board for Vocational Education
Home-economics women of Berkeley, California, aided in collecting and making over old clothing.
Our Schools in War Time—and AfterArthur Davis Dean
home economics
- (functioning as singular or plural) the study of diet, budgeting, child care, textiles, and other subjects concerned with running a home
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