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stay-at-home

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Adjective

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

Noun

  1. A person or animal that prefers to stay at home rather than socialize or travel.
  2. A parent who is not employed and rather devoting more time to children.
  3. Alternative spelling of stay-at-home.

Verb

  1. Not to vote in an election; not to turn out; not to make it to the polls
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, at, home.

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