domestic
noun/dəˈmestɪk/
/dəˈmestɪk/
- (also domestic help, domestic worker)a servant who works in somebody’s house, doing the cleaning and other jobs
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- (British English, informal) a fight between two members of the same family
- The police were called to sort out a domestic.
Word Originlate Middle English: from French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus ‘house’.
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