homemaker
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Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: home‧maker
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homemaker (plural homemakers)
- (US) A person who maintains the administration and upkeep of his or her residence, especially one who is not employed outside the home; one who runs the household.
- 1979, Lillian B. Rubin, Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self, page 233:
- Forty-seven-year-old homemaker and volunteer museum guide, holder of a master's degree in English, married twenty-three years to a professor.
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person who maintains his or her residence
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