domestically
domestic
noun[ C ]
uk /dəˈmes.tɪk/ us /dəˈmes.tɪk/

domesticnoun[C] (CRIME)

mainly UKinformal
a fight or attack that happens in a home between people who know each other:
Police officers should never dismiss a violent incident as "a domestic".

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Crime - general words
accuse someone of a crime
anti-crime
anti-fraud
anti-narcotics
arrestable
crookedness
delinquency
delinquently
driving under the influence
DUI
illegality
netherworld
non-crime
offence
on all counts
outrage
war crime
white-collar crime
wrongdoing
zero tolerance

domesticnoun[C] (SERVANT)

old-fashioned(alsodomestic help)
someone paid to do work, such as cleaning and cooking, in someone else's house佣人，保姆

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People who clean & tidy places & things
chambermaid
char
charlady
charwoman
chimney sweep
clean freak
daily
dishwasher
home help
housekeeper
kitchen porter
neat freak
scullion
squeegee man
sweep
trash picker
valet
waste picker

domestic | American Dictionary

domestic
adjective
us/dəˈmes·tɪk/

domesticadjective (OF HOME)

relating to the home, house, or family:
I’ve never been fond of domestic chores like cooking and cleaning.

domesticadjective (OF COUNTRY)

politics & government
relating to a person’s own country:
The president’s domestic policy has been more successful than his foreign policy.
domestic
noun[ C ]
 datedus/dəˈmes·tɪk/

domesticnoun[C] (WORKER)

someone paid to help with work that needs to be done in a house, such as cleaning and washing clothes

domestic | Business English

domestic
adjective[ usually before noun ]
uk /dəˈmestɪk/us
of, relating to, or within a person's own country:
Domestic retailers are facing relentless pressure from imports.
Focusing on exporting can help fight off domestic and foreign competition.
domestic manufacturing/production
relating to the home or families:
Our service is aimed at domestic users.
domestic chores

domestically

adverb
The company continues to search for expansion opportunities, both domestically and overseas.

Examples of domestic

domestic
In hospital environments basic services such as cooking and laundry were organized centrally and cleaning was undertaken by domestics.
The women among them found work as marketers and laundry women, domestics, seamstresses, teachers and artisans.
The records of the savings banks list account holders under seven separate headings: workers, domestics, employees, soldiers and sailors, diverse professions, minors, and mutual benefit societies.
There were no boarding houses for domestics.
In theory, these religious happenings were structured as segregated holy hours, with domestics to arrive at five-thirty a. m., followed by children, women, priests and men.
The social preoccupation with factory girls, washerwomen, store clerks and domestics, so intense in the first two decades of the century, declined steadily in the 1920s.
In other words, they saw only those horrors that threatened the ideological security of the domestic sphere, and from that sphere they judged such horrors.
The basic pattern of the domestic situation is, he says, the same for all men.
The use of domestic postage-based terminal dues appears most feasible among industrialized countries.
Basing terminal dues on domestic postage would have the opposite effect on the exchange of mail with developing countries.
Since the surcharge would not apply in the "domestic postage" scenario, none of the figures in lines 5 to 7 would change.
Since her lessons in reading accompany those in sewing, the mistress also knits literacy into the fabric of domestic belonging.
The domestic corporation and then, after it made its first significant appearance in the 1880s, the multinational corporation, became the organizations of choice.
The statistics about people found to be here in breach of their conditions of stay do not identify domestics as a separate category.
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