单词 | home-working |
释义 | home-workingadj. That works at home, esp. as distinguished from working in a factory or office. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [adjective] home1429 home-working1850 1850 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 5 Oct. 218/1 The home-working journeyman. 1897 S. Webb & B. Webb Industr. Democracy II. ii. xii. 545 To meet the spasmodic demands of the ‘season’, thousands of home-working families can, by a word, be automatically compelled to labor all the night through. 1920 Eighth Ann. Rep. Chief, Children's Bureau (U.S. Dept. Labor) 23 Eyestrain was reported for many home-working children. 2002 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 15 Sept. v. 4/3 Your humble home-working computer correspondent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1850 |
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