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domestically /dəˈmɛstɪkli /adverb1In a way that relates to the running of a home or to family relations: his wife is domestically and financially controlling...- Women who are domestically abused face a higher risk of contracting HIV.
- Frayn presents us with two couples domestically intertwined.
- You don't seem very domestically inclined, although I understand you and your boyfriend are building a house in Massachusetts.
1.1In a home environment: barn owls can be kept domestically...- There are dangers in drawing comparisons between an artificially bred and domestically trained animal and an animal which is living completely in the wild.
- The main problem, as we saw it, was that none of us realized that domestically raised, free range turkeys can fly.
- The animals that were kept domestically were much the same as today, sheep, pigs, cattle, goats and a few horses.
2In a way that relates to activities inside a particular country; nationally: only a quarter of French locomotives were domestically produced the company has a high reputation both domestically and internationally...- The most worrying aspect of the figures is that for the main part inflation is domestically led.
- The majority of local suppliers are domestically owned.
- Domestically grown mangoes, which come from Florida and California and are considered the best by aficionados, peak in summer.
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