home-improvement

adjective

: being or related to a project to make one's house better, bigger, more modern, etc.
long past time for some home-improvements

Examples of home-improvement in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But what got Ellison to top leadership roles at both retail and home-improvement companies was his drive to differentiate himself from other candidates. Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 19 June 2024 Chief Executive Officer Marvin R. Ellison said on a call with analysts that uncertainty around interest rates and inflation continues to weigh on home-improvement demand, as does a preference for discretionary services over goods. Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 21 May 2024 The detectives hoped to glean valuable information from the suspect: the home-improvement items were clearly going somewhere, and had come from somewhere. Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024 That’s fueling the home-improvement market, and in some instances, the for-sale market too. Alena Botros, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for home-improvement 

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“Home-improvement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home-improvement. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.

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