homemaker
noun
home·mak·er
ˈhōm-ˌmā-kər 
: one who manages a household especially as a spouse and parent
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TV commercials often show happy homemakers.
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Parker Posey is especially good as a homemaker, Violet Ratliff, who arrives with a cache of tranquilizers—these are soon being pilfered and swallowed by her husband, Timothy (Jason Isaacs), a businessman about to be exposed for fraud.
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
The story of Yeong-hye, a part-time graphic artist and homemaker, whose decision to stop eating meat leads to mental health struggles and problems in her familial life, was adapted as a feature film by Woo-Seong Lim and screened at Sundance in 2010.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
But the postwar manufacturing boom presented American homemakers with a dilemma.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
In the 1930s and ’40s, Kraft began marketing Velveeta successfully, if rather dubiously, as a health food and diet aid, and its low price and convenience—beloved by kids, shelf-stable, melts like a dream—charmed America’s homemakers throughout the suburban ’60s and beyond.
—David Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
The story of Yeong-hye, a part-time graphic artist and homemaker, whose decision to stop eating meat leads to mental health struggles and problems in her familial life, was adapted as a feature film by Woo-Seong Lim and screened at Sundance in 2010.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
But the postwar manufacturing boom presented American homemakers with a dilemma.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
In the 1930s and ’40s, Kraft began marketing Velveeta successfully, if rather dubiously, as a health food and diet aid, and its low price and convenience—beloved by kids, shelf-stable, melts like a dream—charmed America’s homemakers throughout the suburban ’60s and beyond.
—David Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
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homemaker
noun
home·mak·er
ˈhōm-ˌmā-kər
: one who manages a household especially as a spouse and parent
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