domestic servant

collocation in English

meaningsofdomesticandservant

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domestic
adjective
uk
/dəˈmes.tɪk/us
/dəˈmes.tɪk/
relating to a person's ...
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servant
noun
uk
/ˈsɜː.vənt/us
/ˈsɝː.vənt/
a person who is employed in another person's house, doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning, especially in ...
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(Definition ofdomesticandservantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Similarly, there was no sizeable difference between the incomes of a domestic weaver and adomesticservant.
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Hence, if she left home to work as adomesticservant, her family would obtain 127.75 yen per year as extra income.
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Finally, they released him since no one came forward to provide bail; he had to labor as adomesticservantinstead (p. 157).
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She was registered as adomesticservantand ended up in the poorhouse where she spent the last year of her life.
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Conversely, the sum of 339.75 yen + the amount adomesticservantcould contribute to her family per year + is an underestimate.
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Trollope manages this, signicantly, by making her protagonist the son of a formerdomesticservant.
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Oral history and personal memoirs vividly illustrate how young women perceived and evaluated their work as farm maid or urbandomesticservant.
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Take, first of all, the ordinary case of adomesticservantwho is an insured person.
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Take the very common case of adomesticservantwho leaves her employment and goes home for a week.
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Will thedomesticservantin sickness have to pay accumulation of arrears?
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Take the case of adomesticservantwho leaves service to look after the household of her brother who supports her.
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It has been asked, and with great force, how often we have seen adomesticservantof sixty.
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She works as a part-time, very nearly a whole-time,domesticservant.
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She was given a position asdomesticservantin this hostel.
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Then there is the question of the outdoordomesticservant.
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Another and more recent case is that of a young woman of 26, adomesticservant.
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But it would create a bureaucracy that was disproportionately costly to have a policing system for everydomesticservantin the land.
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But it is not the case that every servant in a boarding house or hotel is necessarily adomesticservant.
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Where we have these very difficult lodger, hotel bedroom ordomesticservantcases, they are not intended to apply.
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