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单词 stay-at-home
释义

stay-at-home

Word forms: plural stay-at-homes
countable noun [usually NOUN noun]
If you describe someone as a stay-at-home, you mean that they stay at home rather than going out to work or travelling.
71 percent of households do not include a stay-at-home parent.

stay-at-home in British English

adjective
1. 
(of a person) enjoying a quiet, settled, and unadventurous use of leisure
noun
2. 
a stay-at-home person
3. 
a person who does not bother to vote in a political election

Examples of 'stay-at-home' in a sentence
stay-at-home

He says he has a fresh respect for stay-at-home parents.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Does she dream of being a stay-at-home mother?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But the stay-at-home mum is not just any pole dancer.
The Sun (2013)
Being a stay-at-home mum makes you fit.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The women who stay deal with that by outsourcing their domestic lives to staff or having stay-at-home husbands.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They actually have one working parent and one stay-at-home parent and almost nobody in the world does that any more.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
So shake off that stay-at-home mood.
The Sun (2006)
One friend is a stay-at-home mum.
The Sun (2010)
But because she is a star in her own right it is not as likely as if she was a stay-at-home wife.
The Sun (2010)
There's an awful lot of work for a stay-at-home mom to do.
Christianity Today (2000)
Love is out there, so shake off a stay-at-home mood.
The Sun (2009)
There is a defensive timbre to the stay-at-home mothers' voice now.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It would let married stay-at-home parents transfer part of their tax-free allowance to a working spouse.
The Sun (2012)
My dream was to be a stay-at-home mom, probably because my mom was always at work.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The jobs are ideal for stay-at-home parents as you can earn from 150 per week working just three hours a day.
The Sun (2011)
There are currently 1.2m stay-at-home parents.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
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