In hospital environments basic services such as cooking and laundry were organized centrally and cleaning was undertaken by domestics.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The women among them found work as marketers and laundry women, domestics, seamstresses, teachers and artisans.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The records of the savings banks list account holders under seven separate headings: workers, domestics, employees, soldiers and sailors, diverse professions, minors, and mutual benefit societies.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There were no boarding houses for domestics.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In theory, these religious happenings were structured as segregated holy hours, with domestics to arrive at five-thirty a. m., followed by children, women, priests and men.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The social preoccupation with factory girls, washerwomen, store clerks and domestics, so intense in the first two decades of the century, declined steadily in the 1920s.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In other words, they saw only those horrors that threatened the ideological security of thedomesticsphere, and from that sphere they judged such horrors.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The basic pattern of thedomesticsituation is, he says, the same for all men.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The use ofdomesticpostage-based terminal dues appears most feasible among industrialized countries.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Basing terminal dues ondomesticpostage would have the opposite effect on the exchange of mail with developing countries.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Since the surcharge would not apply in the "domesticpostage" scenario, none of the figures in lines 5 to 7 would change.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Since her lessons in reading accompany those in sewing, the mistress also knits literacy into the fabric ofdomesticbelonging.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Thedomesticcorporation and then, after it made its first significant appearance in the 1880s, the multinational corporation, became the organizations of choice.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The statistics about people found to be here in breach of their conditions of stay do not identify domestics as a separate category.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The total number of domestics employed, male and female, is 2,400, and 460 additional are required.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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.