work outside the home

idiom

: to have a job in a factory, restaurant, office building, etc.

Examples of work outside the home in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Unexpectedly, the ranks of female workers ballooned: aside from the lure of benefits, many women jumped at the chance to find work outside the home. Jennifer Peck, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2024 Many, many more Italian women work outside the home than in the past — the number grew last year to more than half of Italian women, an all-time high — and that means many two-career couples without the time or energy to assemble a weekly banquet. Frank Bruni Laura May Todd, New York Times, 13 May 2024 Though this has changed somewhat in recent years, with more LDS women seeking work outside the home, blogging — and later, influencing — provided many women with a way to combine both traditional homemaking and journaling, a longtime tradition within the Church. Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024 Due to the severity of their child's disability, some parents are unable to work outside the home. Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 4 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for work outside the home 

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“Work outside the home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20outside%20the%20home. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.

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