household help

collocation in English

meaningsofhouseholdandhelp

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withhelporhousehold.
household
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈhaʊs.həʊld/us
/ˈhaʊs.hoʊld/
a group of people, often a family, who ...
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help
noun
uk
/help/us
/help/
the act of helping ...
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(Definition ofhouseholdandhelpfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhousehold help

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This leaves aside clerical and technical staff and also thehouseholdhelp.
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As part of the nationalist rhetoric, domestic skills would make upper-class women selfsufficient and independent rather than reliant onhouseholdhelp.
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There was an average of 6 to 7 members per household, which could include grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and live-inhouseholdhelp.
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There was a north-south gradient in the proportion that provided practicalhouseholdhelp, from approximately one-in-three in the northern countries to around 15 per cent in the southern countries.
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Householdhelprequired on the day of the perfusion that was directly related to home medical care.
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Kulis (1991) found that stable manual working families were more likely to providehouseholdhelp, take part in social activities and demonstrate positive emotional engagement than stable non-manual families.
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It is really intended to help with such things ashouseholdhelpand travel costs, and so on, by the wife who goes to work.
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The opportunity forhouseholdhelpis, undoubtedly.
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When placing a newspaper advertisement for the landlady's character did not seem viable, they advertised forhouseholdhelpinstead.
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The redemptioners who became indentured servants ended up working as farm laborers,householdhelp, in workshops, and even as store clerks.
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The women also have their share of work tending to their vegetable gardens or tumana and ashouseholdhelpfor the local political elite.
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I think it is the local authorities' responsibility to provide household helps.
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It started with twelve (12) students only in the first year, after campaigning from the different offices in the city where there are employers with household helps.
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