home economics

noun

1. the art and science of home management.
2. 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.

home economics

noun

1. functioning as singular or plural the study of diet, budgeting, child care, textiles, and other subjects concerned with running a home

Derived Forms

• home economist, noun

Other Words From

• home economist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of home economics¹

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

Example Sentences

A home economics class with a focus on finance and budgeting would have been one of the most useful classes I can imagine.

From The Daily Beast

One of my biggest complaints about my high school education—and there were many—was the absence of a home economics class.

From The Daily Beast

Here are some numbers that suggest to me that we need more emphasis on home economics in high school.

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For this reason it becomes necessary to resist certain narrownesses in certain phases of home economics.

From Project Gutenberg

Most of them, besides taking a degree in Home Economics, took likewise a degree in Education.

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At the University of Missouri the first crop of graduates in home economics was gathered in the spring of 1910.

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So much for the “money sense in expenditure” which a full home economics course adds to “academic” education.

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We revert now finally to the “manual arts” which a full course in home economics adds to an “academic” education.

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