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单词 living-out system
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living-out system
living out n. (a) the practice by domestic staff of working and residing in their employer's house (rare); (b) the practice of living away from work premises where one normally might also be expected to reside; often attributive (usually hyphenated), as living-out system, etc.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [noun] > employer's premises or not
living out1874
living in1892
1874 Repository Feb. 89/1 Most girls would object to the place of a servant in a family, because there is an odium attached to living out.
1898 Charity Organisation Rev. July 44 The ‘living-out’ system, if more independent, can also be ideally uncomfortable.
1901 Daily Chron. 15 May 2/7 Living out..would take a great deal of responsibility from the shoulders of employers.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 14 The misunderstanding has arisen..over the living-out system on which the Commandos work. The men are neither billeted nor fed by the Army.
2011 E. Prentis Nurse in Action iii. 47 Living out was one of the rights we earned when we passed our Finals. It was not a right that the Matron wholeheartedly approved of.
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