stay-at-home
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Of a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children.
- Of rules or regulations: forbidding the populace to leave their domicile except under emergency or other special circumstances, especially for purposes of quarantine.
- Of or relating to quarantine in the home.
- Not ever travelling or moving far from home.
- Playing very defensively; not leaving the defensive zone early.
- Alternative spelling of stay-at-home.
Noun
- A person or animal that prefers to stay at home rather than socialize or travel.
- A parent who is not employed and rather devoting more time to children.
- Alternative spelling of stay-at-home.
Verb
- Not to vote in an election; not to turn out; not to make it to the polls
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, at, home.
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