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Domicile Has Latin Roots
Domicile traces to Latin domus, meaning "home," and English speakers have been using it as a word for "home" since at least the 15th century. In the eyes of the law, a domicile can also be a legal residence, the address from which one registers to vote, licenses a car, and pays income tax. Wealthy people may have several homes in which they live at different times of the year, but only one of their homes can be their official domicile for all legal purposes.
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Examples of domicile in a Sentence
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
This really struck me during covid, when the affluent endlessly griped and/or joked about being bored in their domiciles while having an endless supply of food and toys delivered by people who were expected to show up and do their jobs, pandemic or not.
—Abigail Anthony, National Review, 22 Oct. 2023
Such a body, with authority rooted in government support, would be well positioned to prevent global tech players from engaging in regulatory arbitrage or hiding behind corporate domiciles.
—Ian Bremmer and Mustafa Suleyman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Aug. 2023
The streets and domiciles appear to have organically sprouted rather than resulting from any civic planning.
—Eddie Lin, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
Remember Hong Kong Exchange, AIA, and Macao casino stocks are technically not Chinese companies due to their corporate domicile being in Hong Kong.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
Larry Keele, retired cofounder of one of the world's largest asset management firms, Oaktree Capital, listed his family's forested domicile, crisscrossed by rivers in Leiper's Fork.
—USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
Pitt is not a French citizen who keeps the chateau as his domicile.
—Rachel Shin, Fortune, 11 July 2023
Masterful Saturn is beginning its retrograde phase in your 4th House of Foundations, indicating this is your karmic moment to work through any issues or complications that may be stirring in your domicile.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
Yasheng Huang, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
Unilever, which was founded in 1929, even consolidated its two headquarters in Rotterdam and London in favor of being domiciled in the British capital city.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
And companies domiciled in Dubai and Hong Kong, for instance—some of them formed over the last year—have begun trading the Rosneft and Gazprom hauls abandoned by the likes of Shell and Exxon.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
By having more funds domiciled in Singapore, the government hopes to not only attract more cash, but also jobs in the legal and accounting sectors.
—Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
The current crisis might instead prompt us to ask whether companies domiciled in tax havens have any right to come crying to governments for a handout.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 1 May 2020
That wasn’t the case five years ago when AbbVie sought to reduce its tax bill by merging with Shire, which was domiciled in Ireland where the corporate rate is 12.5% and intellectual property is taxed at 6.25%.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 June 2019
That levy, collected at the end of December, falls heavily on American giants Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, which have frequently been criticized for sidestepping local taxes by domiciling core operations in lower-tax nations.
—Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2020
For centuries, a vast range of African art has been domiciled outside the continent.
—Oluwatosin Adeshokan, Quartz Africa, 7 Mar. 2020
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Word History
Noun and Verb
Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin domicilium, from domus — see dome entry 1
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1809, in the meaning defined above
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“Domicile.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/domicile. Accessed 11 Dec. 2023.
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Kids Definition
domicile
1 of 2 noundomicile
2 of 2 verb
Legal Definition
domicile
1 of 2 noun
called also legal residence
Note: The domicile of an individual or organization determines the proper jurisdiction and venue for legal process. The courts of a person's domicile have personal jurisdiction. For persons lacking capacity (as minors), domicile is often statutorily determined as the domicile of the guardian.
domicile
2 of 2 transitive verbU.S. CodeL. H. TribeNoun
Latin domicilium dwelling place, home
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