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# homemaker

«homemaker» in Mova's school dictionary: **looking after their home and family, such as cooking…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a homemaker, homemakers)

### meaning for a pupil

A person, man or woman, whose main work is looking after their home and family, such as cooking, cleaning and caring for children, instead of a paid job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homemaker/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In social studies and everyday life a homemaker does unpaid but important work at home; it is a modern, kinder word than «housewife» and fits both men and women. Phrases: «a full-time homemaker».

### examples

- My dad is a homemaker and cooks all our meals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homemaker/#x1)
- She was a homemaker while the children were small. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homemaker/#x2)
- Homemakers do a lot of work without pay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homemaker/#x3)
- The form asked if he was employed or a homemaker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homemaker/#x4)
- Being a homemaker is a full-time job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homemaker/#x5)
- Grandma was a homemaker and also grew vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homemaker/#x6)

### note

Countable. Gender-neutral; preferred today over «housewife» or «househusband». In the US also «stay-at-home mom/dad»; in the UK «stay-at-home parent».

### In the corpora

- ["Domestic engineer" is a joking name for a housewife, househusband or homemaker.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «homemaker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homemaker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.