Domestic Help

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Domestic Help

Definition: Domestic Help

Domestic Help

Noun

1. A household servant.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Domestic Help

Synonyms: domestic (n), house servant (n). (additional references)

Photo Album: Domestic Help

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Domestic help boarding streetcar, Atlanta, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: Domestic Help

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Domestic help, meal programs, nursing assistance, occupational therapy, or other home services may be available from federal, state, or local health service agencies. (references)
Business		During the last years, in which the economy has boomed, new industries have been created and/or expanded, thus producing an exodus of domestic help to jobs in industries such as fruit packing, enabling them to live independently and become company workers instead of "household maids". (references)
Economic History	Malaysia	Due to the availability and reasonable cost, most expatriates in Malaysia have some domestic help. (references)
Worker Rights	Ghana	Some young women are trafficked to the Middle East, particularly Lebanon, where they work in menial jobs or as domestic help. (references)
	Georgia	Georgian women primarily are trafficked from the country to Turkey, Greece, Israel, and Western Europe to work in bars, restaurants, or as domestic help. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Domestic Help

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
domestic help	29
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Domestic Help

Language		Translations for "domestic help"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		talousapulainen. (various references)

French		femme de ménage. (various references)

Italian		donna delle pulizie (charwoman). (various references)

Pig Latin		omesticday elphay

Spanish		asistenta (charwoman, cleaner, daily). (various references)

Swedish		hemhjälp. (various references)

Turkish		uşak (body servant, do all, factotum, flunkey, flunky, footman, helper, henchman, lackey, man, manservant, myrmidon, pursuivant, retainer, servant, servitor, valet, varlet, waiter), hizmetçi (charwoman, domestic, domestic servant, factotum, handmaid, help, helper, housemaid, maid, maidservant, menial, servant, servant maid, server, servitor, skivvy, slavey, waiting girl, waiting maid). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Domestic Help

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-i-l-m-o-p-s-t"
	-2 letters: helicopted.
	-3 letters: chelipeds, clipsheet, comeliest, completed, completes, helicopts, homeliest, lepidotes, lithesome, methodise, splotched, stepchild.
	-4 letters: cepheids, chedites, cheliped, cheloids, chiseled, closeted, coempted, comedies, competed, competes, compiled, compiles, complete, complied, complies, demolish, demotics, depolish, despotic, domestic, eclipsed, epidotes, epistome, epitomes, ethmoids, heelpost, helicopt, helistop, helotism, hempiest, homesite, hoplites, hosteled, implodes, imposted, isopleth, lepidote, melodies.
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Alternative Orthography: Domestic Help

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 6D 65 73 74 69 63 48 65 6C 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01101101 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 00100000 01001000 01100101 01101100 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#109 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#99 &#32 &#72 &#101 &#108 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 006D 0065 0073 0074 0069 0063 0048 0065 006C 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3881797185867569242717882

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography

9. Bibliography

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