| 单词 | domestic service |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdomestic service domestic service n. the condition or occupation of a household servant (cf. service n.1 17a). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > [noun] > domestic private servicea1652 domestic service1741 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xiii. 77 These duties..inspirit every one in the Discharge of all their domestick Services. 1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) I. vi. 73 Young women..believe that the most abject poverty is preferable to domestic service. 1840 H. Reeve tr. A. de Tocqueville Democracy in Amer. IV. iii. v. 39 This is not only the notion which servants themselves entertain..domestic service is looked upon by masters in the same light. 1933 D. C. Peel Life's Enchanted Cup xviii. 239 Two of these..were Ministry of Reconstruction Committees; one to enquire into the housing of the working classes..the other to enquire into conditions of domestic service. < as lemmas |
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