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homework /ˈhəʊmwəːk /noun [mass noun]1Schoolwork that a pupil is required to do at home: he always helps his daughter with her homework...- Pupils can do their homework onscreen at school and file it electronically for marking.
- A home learning project has encouraged them to help pupils with homework and attend workshops and meetings in school.
- The payments of £40 are only handed out in return for such pupils agreeing to attend school and hand in homework.
1.1Work or study done in preparation for an event or situation: he had evidently done his homework and read his predecessor’s reports...- We've done our homework, watched the tapes and hopefully prepared the squad as well as possible.
- She went on to say, that had the Government done their homework properly things would have been very different.
- When he did speak, he gave every appearance of having done his homework.
2Paid work carried out in one’s own home, especially low-paid piecework: the growth of homework and of part-time working...- Please do not be mislead into thinking that you can find 'paid homework'.
- Previously her energies went into raising her four children, two with special needs during which she took various part-time jobs and low-paid homework.
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