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homebound /ˈhəʊmbaʊnd /adjective chiefly North American1On the way home; homeward-bound: her homebound flight...- He's about to turn the kids' homebound road trip into a living nightmare!
- He bought an iPod in a duty-free zone at the homebound airport.
- They were able to reverse the order of the train and mount the home-bound line.
2Unable to leave one’s house, typically due to illness or old age; housebound: the delivery of care to people who are homebound...- The cost of one ticket will provide more than one month of hot meals and case management for a homebound senior citizen.
- Her mother had increasingly become a home-bound invalid.
- City Fresh Foods is paid by city health agencies to provide ethnic food to the homebound elderly.
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