homemaker
a person who manages the household of their own family, especially as a principal occupation.
a person employed to manage a household and do household chores for others, as for the sick or elderly.
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How to use homemaker in a sentence
His father ran a chain of hat stores, and his mother was a homemaker.
Robert Glauber, Harvard business professor and ranking Treasury official, dies at 81 | Louie Estrada | March 4, 2021 | Washington PostHis father worked in a bottle factory, and his mother was a homemaker.
Candido Camero, ‘father of modern conga drumming,’ dies at 99 | Matt Schudel | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostHis father was a shoe salesman, and his mother was a homemaker who was born in Scotland while her own mother was en route to the United States, immigrating from what is now Ukraine.
Norm Crosby, comedian who mangled words with great extinction, dies at 93 | Harrison Smith | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostHis father was a streetcar operator, and his mother was a homemaker.
Doyle Royal, U-Md. coach and decorated combat veteran, dies at 101 | Bart Barnes | November 5, 2020 | Washington PostMedieval cooks and homemakers were often noted as burning their fires constantly, with a never-ending pot of soup at the ready.
Bone broth will sustain you at home and in the wild. Here’s how to make it. | By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life | October 5, 2020 | Popular-Science
There was Carol White, a ho-hum homemaker who finds herself besieged by multiple chemical sensitivity in Safe.
Rubenstein grew up in Baltimore, where his father made $7,000 a year working for the post office, and his mother was a homemaker.
Her father was a sociology and education professor at UCLA; her mother was “a homemaker with creative tendencies.”
Kim Gordon: Going Solo After Sonic Youth, and Why She Identifies With ‘Girls’ | Andrew Romano | April 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe was a homemaker for 13 years, until all the last child was in school full-time, then plunged into law.
Hillary Supporters Should Want to Complete Ferraro’s Unfinished Business | Jill Lawrence | February 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNezar too was a homemaker in Homs who arrived in Jordan last year.
Syrians Selling Their Teenage Daughters to Saudi 'Husbands' | David Frum | March 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is a problem usually very difficult of solution by the homemaker of small means.
The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 | VariousBut what is the homemaker of limited means, who must have some help, to do under present conditions?
The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 | VariousIt may seem that, in this article, I am more concerned for the “hired help” than the homemaker for whom I am ostensibly writing.
The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 | VariousNo land offers better or freer social conditions to the homemaker.
Wheat Growing in Australia | Australia Department of External AffairsThe good wife and homemaker says to her children, "Where thou goest, I will go."
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British Dictionary definitions for homemaker
/ (ˈhəʊmˌmeɪkə) /
mainly US and Canadian a person, esp a housewife, who manages a home
US and Canadian a social worker who manages a household during the incapacity of the housewife
Derived forms of homemaker
- homemaking, noun, adjective
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