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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
domiciliary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
care
▪ Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
▪ It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
▪ Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
▪ Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
▪ Most professionals agree with the Bill's objectives - to apply the principles of the Registered Homes Act 1984 to domiciliary care.
▪ Care in the community: formal agencies Different agencies offer domiciliary care in the community.
▪ The private sector also plays a part, and may do so increasingly, notably in the provision of private domiciliary care.
service
▪ Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
▪ One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
visit
▪ Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
▪ Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
▪ Equally troublesome, if not more so, is the domiciliary assessment which turns out to express total income from all sources.
▪ In Amsterdam, Querido introduced a twenty-four-hour domiciliary support system, linked with the care of general practitioners.
▪ Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
▪ Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
▪ The need for respite care or day care or domiciliary support is rarely so precisely detailed.
▪ We will provide choice in domiciliary and day care.
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domiciliary

a. Of or relating to a domicile. n. (context legal English): A person who legally resides in a particular place.

WordNet
domiciliary

adj. of or relating to or provided in a domicile; "domiciliary medical care"; "domiciliary caves"

Usage examples of "domiciliary".

State A, such adjudication of domicile was held not to bind one subsequently appointed as domiciliary administrator c.

Court has in fact relied to sustain taxation exclusively by the situs State, logically would seem to permit taxation by the domiciliary State as well as by the nondomiciliary State in which the tangibles are situate, especially when the former levies the tax on the owner in terms of the value of the tangibles.

Massachusetts, a state of domiciliary origin, was required to accord full faith and credit to a 90-day Florida decree which had been contested by the husband.

A new estimate and verification of the food supply takes place, domiciliary searches, seizures of special stores regarded as too ample,[83] limited rations for each consumer, a common and obligatory mess table for all prisoners, brown, égalité bread, mostly of bran, for every mouth that can chew, prohibition of the making of any other kind, confiscation of boulters and sieves,[84] the "individual," personal responsibility of every administrator who allows the people he directs to resist or escape providing the demanded supplies, the sequestration of his property, imprisonment, fines, the pillory and the guillotine to hurry up requisitions, or stop free trading, - every terrifying method is driven to the utmost against the farmers and cultivators of the soil.

A certain Velu, a born vagabond, formerly in the alms-house and brought up there, then a shoemaker or a cobbler, afterwards teaching school in the faubourg de Vienne, and at last a haranguer and proposer of tyrannicide motions, short, stout and as rubicund as his cap, is made President of the Popular club at Blois, then delegate for domiciliary visits, and, throughout the reign of Terror, he is a principal personage in the town, district and department.

Exposed for two years to ignominious dangers, to every species of outrage, to innumerable persecutions, to the steel of the assassin, to the firebrands of incendiaries, to the most infamous charges, 'to the denouncement of' their corrupted domestics, to domiciliary visits" prompted by the commonest street rumor, "to arbitrary imprisonment by the Committee of Inquiry," deprived of their civil rights, driven out of primary meetings, "they are held accountable for their murmurs, and punished for a sensibility which would touch the heart in a suffering criminal.