Sekirov Dictionary

stay-at-home

adjective 5
noun 2
stay at home verb 1
forms 5

adjective[before a noun]5

Not ever travelling or moving far from home.
Of a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children.
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Of rules or regulations: forbidding the populace to leave their domicile except under emergency or other special circumstances, especially for purposes of quarantine.
- stay-at-home orders
Of or relating to quarantine in the home.
Playing very defensively; not leaving the defensive zone early.

noun2

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A person or animal that prefers to stay at home rather than socialize or travel.
- Some animals are stay-at-homes, and some are travelers and migrate. Tommy, who finds this out, is a little like both. — 1960
A parent who is not employed and rather devoting more time to children.

stay at home verb1

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Not to vote in an election; not to turn out; not to make it to the polls
- Democrats were concerned that Mitt Romney might win the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election because millennials would stay at home on Election Day.

forms

stayed at home · staying at home · stays at home · stay at homes · stay-at-homes

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