homemaker
Americannoun
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homemakers
plural
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a person who manages the household of their own family, especially as a principal occupation.
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a person employed to manage a household and do household chores for others, as for the sick or elderly.
noun
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a person, esp a housewife, who manages a home
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a social worker who manages a household during the incapacity of the housewife
Sensitive Note
See housewife.
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Your wife was a homemaker, raising your two children.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
There’s an additional slathering of irony in Garner, the woman behind “Alias” superspy Sydney Bristow, playing the happy homemaker.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Intan Permata, a 36-year-old homemaker and mother of three from neighbouring Banten province, agreed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
One woman from Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province, a 53-year-old homemaker, said she arrived in Mecca earlier this month after a three-day bus journey through Iraq.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
It’s one of those homemaker advice columns—someone called Mrs. Bardell describes tasty and nourishing dishes women can cook for their families in only five minutes.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Depending on the salary, full-time mothers and homemakers — yes, it’s a full-time job too — give up anything between $450,000 and $1 million over their lifetime.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
More than 100 women, many of them homemakers, are volunteer members of an initiative dubbed "Power of Mama", patrolling daily for smoke and flames and jumping in to put out fires when needed.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
On social media, for instance, “trad wives” or traditional wives are embracing being homemakers, while their husbands provide for the family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025
I appreciate the way Stewart uplifted the feminist value of homemakers, reminding the world that nobody is “just” a housewife.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2024
Then he staged a series of luncheons with homemakers.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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