domestic
adjectifnomcourant dans les dialogues
- États-Unis//dəˈmɛs.tɪk//
- États-Unis//-stək//
- Australie//dəˈmes.tɪk//
Of or relating to the home.
adjectif
- 1
Of or relating to the home.
- 2
Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
domestic violence; domestic hot water
The relationship between a hairstylist and a client can be far more than simply somebody to cut and shape hair, which is why Tennessee is the latest state to require cosmetologists to complete training on how to recognize and respond to signs of domestic abuse.
- 3
Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
- 4
Internal to a specific country.
domestic terrorism
The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
And amid all the finger-pointing and pushing to overcome the political fallout of the shooting, neither Mr. Trump or any of his advisers have explained why they falsely said the man the agents killed, Alex Pretti, had been brandishing a gun before he was shot, or why administration officials labeled him as a domestic terrorist before any investigation.
- 5
Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.
“Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
Homosexual men were non-warlike and homosexual women non-domestic, so that their energies sought different outlets from those of ordinary men and women; they became the initiators of new activities.
Étymologie
From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).
nom
- 1
A maid or household servant.
New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestics.
- 2
familierA domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.
Nobody wanted to join the 'Cardigan Squad' – so-called because Child Protection officers were seen as woolly, glorified social workers that mopped up after domestics.
Formes
- pluriel
- domestics
- comparatif
- more domestic
- superlatif
- most domestic