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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
homemaker
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For years she was a homemaker raising three children.
▪ So why is homemaker Toshio Someya so happy?
▪ Sorry frustrated homemakers - and take heart, luncheon tycoons - that's not quite true.
▪ Terri had become a homemaker since I last saw her.
▪ They enroll homemakers in individual or group teaching sessions.
▪ Traders talked about tariffs and homemakers about tea.
▪ Women felt they were being asked to fulfil two contradictory roles, that of the homemaker and the seductress, simultaneously.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
homemaker

also home-maker, "woman considered as a domestic agent," by 1861, American English, from home (n.) + agent noun from make (v.).

Wiktionary
homemaker

n. (context US English) A person who maintains the upkeep of his or her residence, especially one who is not employed outside the home.

WordNet
homemaker

n. a wife who who manages a household while her husband earns the family income [syn: housewife, lady of the house, woman of the house]

Usage examples of "homemaker".

Next, those nightmares of newlywed homemakers, raw sienna and burnt sienna.

Through the bars on breakfast nook windows he saw rough homemakers with stubble and scars cooking breakfast.

Trout was talking to a Maggie White, who had given up being a dental assistant to become a homemaker for an optometrist.

Some conservative people may also be uncomfortable if a woman were successful in a masculine role--executive, pilot, priest--or if a man were successful in a feminine role--nurse, hair stylist, homemaker.

Claire Raymond, a thirty-five-year-old homemaker from Secaucus, looked around in respectful awe at the high ceiling and looming marble columns, as well as the lofty bay windows looking out on nearby Lake Geneva.