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| child care |
the practice, service, or business of caring for other people's children, esp. young children whose parents work outside the home. |
| come from |
to have (a particular place) as one's first home or place of birth. [1/2 definitions] |
| commute |
to travel regularly back and forth between two points, usu. the home and workplace. [1/7 definitions] |
| commuter |
one who travels regularly between two points, usu. home and workplace. |
| cottage |
a small or modest detached home, usu. for one family. [1/2 definitions] |
| cottage industry |
any small business conducted from the owner's home. [1/2 definitions] |
| county agent |
a person employed by the government in rural areas to advise and educate in farming, managing natural resources, home economics, and the like; agricultural agent. |
| craft |
(pl.) activities that use the hands to make things that decorate or are useful around a home. [1/7 definitions] |
| crèche |
a home for abandoned infants and very young children. [1/3 definitions] |
| crown colony |
a British colony administered by a governor appointed by the home government in London. |
| dame school |
an informal school common to Colonial New England in which rudimentary educational and social skills were taught to children by a woman in her home. [1/2 definitions] |
| day care |
daytime care and supervision, in a home or day-care center, esp. for preschool children, or after-school or vacation care for older children, or supervised daytime care for elderly or disabled people. [1/2 definitions] |
| day room |
a room for recreation, reading, or writing, as in a military barracks, nursing home, or other institution. |
| day school |
a private school for pupils who live at home and attend classes only during the day. (Cf. boarding school.) [1/2 definitions] |
| derelict |
someone without a home or means of support; vagrant. [1/4 definitions] |
| dine out |
to eat dinner away from one's home. |
| dining room |
a room, usu. in a home or hotel, where meals are eaten. |
| docent |
a lecturer or guide in a museum, historic home, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| doggie bag |
a bag or box in which a restaurant will pack leftovers of a patron's meal to betaken home, presumably to be fed to a pet. |
| domestic |
particularly fond of the home or maintaining a home. [2/5 definitions] |
| domestic science |
see "home economics." |
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