homemaker
家庭主妇,主妇,家庭妇女,家政
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- : a person who manages the household of his or her 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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Examples
His father ran a chain of hat stores, and his mother was a homemaker.
His father worked in a bottle factory, and his mother was a homemaker.
His 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.
His father was a streetcar operator, and his mother was a homemaker.
Medieval cooks and homemakers were often noted as burning their fires constantly, with a never-ending pot of soup at the ready.
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.”
She was a homemaker for 13 years, until all the last child was in school full-time, then plunged into law.
Nezar too was a homemaker in Homs who arrived in Jordan last year.
It is a problem usually very difficult of solution by the homemaker of small means.
But what is the homemaker of limited means, who must have some help, to do under present conditions?