housewives
plural ofhousewife
| 单词 | housewives |
| 释义 | housewives plural ofhousewife Examplesofhousewiveshousewives Information deficits and classification difficulties meant thathousewivesand ' never having worked ' had to be taken as a single category. From theCambridge English Corpus Likehousewives, older people may be exploited if they provide unpaid domestic labour, whether in child-care or in the care of other aged family members. From theCambridge English Corpus Subsidiary agriculture was practised above all byhousewivesand non-working elderly men, although both employed men and women also made their contribution. From theCambridge English Corpus Some even emerge as leaders of social movements, includinghousewives' associations and consumers' leagues. From theCambridge English Corpus Some withdrew from fieldwork, married and became full-timehousewives. From theCambridge English Corpus Should it attempt to appeal to women on the basis of their role ashousewivesor workers? From theCambridge English Corpus Some conservatives, notably libertarians andhousewives, ultimately rejected politics as a vocation. From theCambridge English Corpus Table 2 shows the same population of women classified by their own occupations if employed outside the home with categories for students andhousewives. From theCambridge English Corpus No doubt, the extension of the state service sector caused thosehousewivesinvolved in hidden self-employment to find other sources of income. From theCambridge English Corpus In all the other aspects of domestic labour,housewivesspent 1.3-1.8 times more time than employed married women. From theCambridge English Corpus At the time of the survey this picture had radically changed, as 78% of the married and 55-8% of the unmarried werehousewives. From theCambridge English Corpus This would not interfere with the already over-heated labour market, andhousewiveswere thought to possess exactly the skills deemed necessary. From theCambridge English Corpus The judging panel (farmers,housewives, cooks and scientists) rejected 70 % of the accessions due to poor post-harvest quality traits. From theCambridge English Corpus During the 1980s, divorcedhousewiveshad few problems finding paid work. From theCambridge English Corpus The prematurity rate was 4-7 forhousewivesand 11-1 for women gainfully employed for 28 weeks or more of pregnancy. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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