plural au pairs
ˈō-ˈperz 
: a usually young foreign person who cares for children and does domestic work for a family in return for room and board and the opportunity to learn the family's language
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Investigators located the clothing of two eighteen-year-old Danish au pairs who’d been raped on Hampstead Heath by two men in 1984.
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Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Our first au pair immediately fit right into our family.
—Natalie Mills, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2025
The Trump administration's pause on some visa interviews last week did not just affect international students, but many American families reliant on foreign au pairs coming to the United States.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
What To Know Upward of 300,000 people come to the U.S. each year on J-1 visas to work in a variety of roles like au pairs, camp counselors and medical staff, as well as those working summer jobs at resorts, in beach towns and at tourism hotspots.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
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Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Our first au pair immediately fit right into our family.
—Natalie Mills, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2025
The Trump administration's pause on some visa interviews last week did not just affect international students, but many American families reliant on foreign au pairs coming to the United States.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
What To Know Upward of 300,000 people come to the U.S. each year on J-1 visas to work in a variety of roles like au pairs, camp counselors and medical staff, as well as those working summer jobs at resorts, in beach towns and at tourism hotspots.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
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“Au pair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/au%20pair. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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