stay-at-home
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stay-at-home
adjective stay at home
- Of a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children. stay-at-home dad
- Of rules or regulations: forbidding the populace to leave their domicile except under emergency or other special circumstances, especially for purposes of quarantine. stay-at-home orders
- Of or relating to quarantine in the home. the stay-at-home era
- Not ever travelling or moving far from home. He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them—the ship; and so is their country—the sea.
- Playing very defensively; not leaving the defensive zone early.
noun stay-at-homes · stay at home
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A person or animal that prefers to stay at home rather than socialize or travel.
I had a fancy to go there [Archangel in Russia]. Now my fancy has been gratified, and there is yet another place written down in the charts of my experience. And it is always a little saddening to exchange a dream for a reality—once also the Caucasus was a name crowded with boundless possibility, an
Similar: homebody
- A parent who is not employed and rather devoting more time to children. We [women], I guess, got into the habit of being stay-at-homes while our children were small because you’re not there during the day with them, you tend to spend your evenings and weekends [with them] […]
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adj of a parent: not employed
| Français | au foyer |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | nicht berufstätig, nichtberufstätig |
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