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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
domestic service
noun
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▪ Finally, on entering work of any kind except domestic service, she would find herself among mostly young women.
▪ In 1881 as many as one in three girls aged between fifteen and twenty had entered domestic service.
▪ Leapor, then, experienced domestic service not only as a servant but as a mistress.
▪ The experience of peasant families was repeated by sending daughters into similar social situations in domestic service and piecework.
▪ There are also places in her work where domestic service is described in very conventional terms.
▪ They glimpsed each other across grocery counters and in the forced intimacy of domestic service now gone out of style.
▪ They know it when their older loved ones die sooner because of having led harsh lives in domestic service or manual labor.
▪ Thus domestic service must be seen as a type of economic relationship operating in all levels of society.

Usage examples of "domestic service".

The noble youths were carefully trained in the learning of the monastery, the arts of the palace, and the exercises of the camp: and from the domestic service of the guards, they were rapidly promoted to the command of provinces and armies.

At the royal banquet, the hereditary great officers, the seven electors, who in rank and title were equal to kings, performed their solemn and domestic service of the palace.

A body of the Alani was received into the military and domestic service of the palace.

Harsh as nineteenth-century factory conditions were, compared to twentieth-century conditions, women increasingly preferred work in the factories to any other alternatives open to them, such as domestic service, or back-breaking work in agricultural gangs, or working as haulers and pullers in the mines.