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单词 stay-at-home
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Definition of stay-at-home in English:

stay-at-home

adjective
  • attributive Preferring to be at home rather than to travel, socialize, or go out to work.

    a stay-at-home family man
    stay-at-home parents
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A stay-at-home First Minister would miss opportunities for promoting Scotland.
    • Great work from McKellar, who really is this country's stay-at-home comedic star.
    • In the real world, Skip is a stay-at-home father who cares for his children and takes care of the house chores.
    • I'm not sick enough to justify Iain leaving work, but if I weren't a stay-at-home parent, I'd have called in sick myself.
    • If you met a stay-at-home man would you date him depending on how hot he was?
    • Many stay-at-home dads complain about the conversational snubs and weird stares they get at playgrounds and school yards.
    • It's just fun to watch the culture of self-imposed female dependency get slammed, and to watch characters own up to how much they hate their stay-at-home lives.
    • The stay-at-home spouse sees the returning hubby or wife as a lifeline from permanent brain damage.
    • Shes not the only satisfied, expat stay-at-home spouse.
    • She also developed the sharp instincts of a stay-at-home wife.
    • I like being a stay-at-home dad who still works.
    • Less than two in 10 wanted to buy luxuries for themselves or their families, and less than one in ten stay-at-home Scots would spend the money on a holiday.
    • (Of course, both Tom and his stay-at-home wife recoil at the possibility that she may have to get a job.
    • I've met other stay-at-home moms, and we often exercise together and socialize.
    • In 1950, the typical family structure consisted of a full-time working father, who was the sole wage earner, and a stay-at-home mom.
    • Unlike many of the stay-at-home fathers, Rory seems to have a particular sense of ease about his time at home.
    • There is already a generous benefit in place for stay-at-home parents.
    • At times, being a stay-at-home dad has been devastating to my sense of self.
    • Hell, I don't even like parties very much—I'm more of a stay-at-home kind of guy, myself.
    • What's more important is that stay-at-home Dundonians have a renewed sense of civic pride.
noun
  • A stay-at-home person.

    her son was a real stay-at-home
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Absent ministers phone in from Tuscan hillsides as some hapless stay-at-home is left to carry the can.
    • Let me recommend here several intensely rewarding volumes for the summer traveler - or summer stay-at-home.
    Synonyms
    housewifely, stay-at-home, home-loving, homely
 
 

Definition of stay-at-home in US English:

stay-at-home

adjectiveˈsteɪ ət ˌhoʊmˈstā ət ˌhōm
  • 1Denoting a parent who is engaged in the full-time care of their child or children and does not go out to work.

    I know lots of working moms and lots of stay-at-home moms
    he was primarily raised by his stay-at-home father
    Example sentencesExamples
    • (Of course, both Tom and his stay-at-home wife recoil at the possibility that she may have to get a job.
    • The stay-at-home spouse sees the returning hubby or wife as a lifeline from permanent brain damage.
    • What's more important is that stay-at-home Dundonians have a renewed sense of civic pride.
    • She also developed the sharp instincts of a stay-at-home wife.
    • In the real world, Skip is a stay-at-home father who cares for his children and takes care of the house chores.
    • Great work from McKellar, who really is this country's stay-at-home comedic star.
    • If you met a stay-at-home man would you date him depending on how hot he was?
    • Less than two in 10 wanted to buy luxuries for themselves or their families, and less than one in ten stay-at-home Scots would spend the money on a holiday.
    • I like being a stay-at-home dad who still works.
    • In 1950, the typical family structure consisted of a full-time working father, who was the sole wage earner, and a stay-at-home mom.
    • I'm not sick enough to justify Iain leaving work, but if I weren't a stay-at-home parent, I'd have called in sick myself.
    • Many stay-at-home dads complain about the conversational snubs and weird stares they get at playgrounds and school yards.
    • Shes not the only satisfied, expat stay-at-home spouse.
    • There is already a generous benefit in place for stay-at-home parents.
    • Unlike many of the stay-at-home fathers, Rory seems to have a particular sense of ease about his time at home.
    • I've met other stay-at-home moms, and we often exercise together and socialize.
    • At times, being a stay-at-home dad has been devastating to my sense of self.
    • It's just fun to watch the culture of self-imposed female dependency get slammed, and to watch characters own up to how much they hate their stay-at-home lives.
    • A stay-at-home First Minister would miss opportunities for promoting Scotland.
    • Hell, I don't even like parties very much—I'm more of a stay-at-home kind of guy, myself.
    1. 1.1 Preferring to be at home rather than to travel or socialize.
      a quiet stay-at-home guy
nounˈsteɪ ət ˌhoʊmˈstā ət ˌhōm
  • A person who prefers to be at home.

    her son was a real stay-at-home
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Absent ministers phone in from Tuscan hillsides as some hapless stay-at-home is left to carry the can.
    • Let me recommend here several intensely rewarding volumes for the summer traveler - or summer stay-at-home.
    Synonyms
    housewifely, stay-at-home, home-loving, homely
 
 
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