Pronunciation Adjective
domestic
- Of or relating to the home.
- 1994, George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert in Violet Quill:
- “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
- 1994, George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert in Violet Quill:
- Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
- (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
- 1890, US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
- It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
- 1890, US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
- Internal to a specific country.
- 1996, Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, Internationalization and Domestic Politics:
- The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
- 1996, Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, Internationalization and Domestic Politics:
- Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.
- (of or relating to the home) bourgeois, civilized, comfortable
- (kept by someone) domesticated
- (of or relating to the home) adventurous, social
- (local) foreign, global
- (kept by someone) wild, feral
- French: domestique
- German: häuslich, Haus
- Portuguese: doméstico
- Russian: дома́шний
- Spanish: doméstico
- French: (home) domestique, (family) familial, (spouse) conjugal
- German: häuslich, Haus
- Portuguese: doméstico
- Russian: дома́шний
- Spanish: doméstico
- French: domestique
- German: Haus
- Italian: domestico
- Portuguese: domesticado, doméstico
- Russian: дома́шний
- Spanish: doméstico
- French: intérieur, (conflict, quarrel) intestin, national
- German: national, staatlich, innerstaatlich
- Portuguese: doméstico, nacional
- Russian: оте́чественный
- Spanish: nacional
domestic (plural domestics)
- A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
, Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A. - New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestics.
- A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent
- 2005: Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence in Whatcom County (read on the Whatcom County website at[https://web.archive.org/web/20060618212243/http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/boards/dv_whatcom042505.pdf] on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal domestics” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.
- German: Domestik, Domestike, Domestikin
- Portuguese: empregada doméstica, empregada, doméstica
- Spanish: empleada doméstica, empleada
- Spanish: malos tratos
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