Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Staying at home.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A staying at home.
  • adjective Staying at home; not gadding.

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Examples

  • The work at home can sometimes increase on weekends, as families, in a rush to mow their grass and do necessary home-keeping, rush about to get it all finished before they have to leave again on Monday.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • I'm not suggesting that you waste a lot of valuable home-keeping time trying to make something like your own leather for shoes, but there are some things you really do not need to buy that can be substituted quite easily.

    Living Beautifully With the New Frugality 2008

  • I'm not suggesting that you waste a lot of valuable home-keeping time trying to make something like your own leather for shoes, but there are some things you really do not need to buy that can be substituted quite easily.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • The work at home can sometimes increase on weekends, as families, in a rush to mow their grass and do necessary home-keeping, rush about to get it all finished before they have to leave again on Monday.

    Enjoying Monday through Friday 2008

  • You are to blogging what Martha is to home-keeping.

    Technical Difficulties Belinda 2008

  • They were told that they shouldn't "have" to stay home and should be given a "choice," but that choice was usually a choice between different colleges and careers, not a choice between providing and home-keeping.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • They were told that they shouldn't "have" to stay home and should be given a "choice," but that choice was usually a choice between different colleges and careers, not a choice between providing and home-keeping.

    Free to be Home 2006

  • What do elderly home-keeping people do of a night after dinner?

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • Luke demurred, for he was a home-keeping, peace-loving youth.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • This was further afield than my home-keeping fancy loved to travel, and designed altogether for a larger canvas than the tales that I affected.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

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