stay-at-home

adjective

ˈstā-ət-ˈhōm

Synonyms of stay-at-home next

: remaining in one's residence, locality, or country

especially : remaining at home especially to tend to children and domestic duties while a spouse is at work

stay-at-home noun

Examples of stay-at-home in a Sentence

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Eunice was an elegant stay-at-home mom who became a prominent human rights attorney and activist. —

Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024 By early 2023, Nakagawa had risen to become chief of engineering at the Coast Guard’s training center in Petaluma, California, and her husband had left the service and was supporting her as a stay-at-home dad. —

Erin Edwards, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2024 Her husband stepped away from his job as a restaurant manager in Texas and is a stay-at-home dad. —

Cheyenne Devon,zachary Green, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024 Growing up in an area with a lot of money and therefore rich stay-at-home partners who fill their voids shopping. —

Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stay-at-home