homemaker

home +‎ maker

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homemaker (plural homemakers)

1. (US) A person who maintains the administration and upkeep of his or her residence, especially one who is not employed outside the home; one who runs the household.
   • 1979, Lillian B. Rubin, Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self, page 233:

     Forty-seven-year-old homemaker and volunteer museum guide, holder of a master's degree in English, married twenty-three years to a professor.

• displaced homemaker

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