in-home

adjective

ˌin-ˈhōm How to pronounce in-home (audio)
ˈin-ˌhōm
: occurring in one's home
in-home care for the elderly
in-home services

Examples of in-home in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Private insurance, the kind that people get through work, typically won’t cover in-home personal care assistants and nurses. Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 8 June 2024 Part of the drug’s new boom, medical experts say, is being driven by clinics and online services offering intravenous treatments and prescriptions for in-home use — such as tablets and nasal sprays — for ailments including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse. Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024 Earlier this year, San Mateo County made STD in-home tests available for free to residents. Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024 Residents can book appointments for more than a dozen services in the 15,000-square-foot wellness center at 53 West 53, which is a Pontiac Land Group property, or can request in-home treatments. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 26 May 2024 From 1968 until retiring in 2000, Mrs. Roane worked for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, now known as the Department of Human Services, as an in-home aide. Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2024 Over the last seven and half decades, the film industry has undergone innumerable changes as in-home viewing has taken off, first with the advent of VCRs and videos and then with the pivot to digital mediums. Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 15 May 2024 The in-home consultation and supplies were paid for by Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid health insurance program for low-income residents. Angela Hart, NPR, 14 May 2024 The difference, however, is that many of these products are enterprise uses of slicing and not products marketed to consumers like their in-home internet packages. Makena Kelly, WIRED, 7 May 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of in-home was in 1956

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“In-home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-home. Accessed 11 Jun. 2024.

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