as in servants
a person hired to perform household or personal services
working as a team, the couple hired themselves out as domestics for wealthy homeowners
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Noun
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The servants worked on Christmas Day and would have the next day off to go visit their own families.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
24 Dec. 2025 -
But, tensions and class struggles keep everyone, including the servants, on edge, all leading up to a mysterious murder.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
15 Dec. 2025
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Usher is a role akin to a general manager of the building, overseeing everything from food service to construction and managing a staff of about 90, including butlers, maids, housekeepers, chefs, curators and engineers.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
7 Dec. 2025
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The renovation is also now 30 years old and, according to a broker who toured the property, was never fully completed, with maids’ rooms upstairs and portions of the home used as offices under Roberts’s ownership.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
2 Dec. 2025
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“Domestics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/domestics. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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