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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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.
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David Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
Born on April 4, 1948, Richard Dean Parsons was raised in Queens, one of five children of an electrical technician and a homemaker.
—Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Dec. 2024
He was born in 1948 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and grew up in Ozone Park, Queens, the son of an electrical technician and a homemaker and one of five children.
—Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 26 Dec. 2024
These are women who embraces a 1950s-style homemaker lifestyle replete with beautiful frocks, focusing on domestic duties like cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing while their husband works.
—Gemma Allen, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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David Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
Born on April 4, 1948, Richard Dean Parsons was raised in Queens, one of five children of an electrical technician and a homemaker.
—Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Dec. 2024
He was born in 1948 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and grew up in Ozone Park, Queens, the son of an electrical technician and a homemaker and one of five children.
—Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 26 Dec. 2024
These are women who embraces a 1950s-style homemaker lifestyle replete with beautiful frocks, focusing on domestic duties like cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing while their husband works.
—Gemma Allen, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Homemaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homemaker. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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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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