stay-at-home

Of a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children.

stay-at-home dad

Ms. Andrews is forthright about her distress. “Jonathan’s eating habits have irritated me for years anyway and have only been exacerbated during the last six or seven weeks of him working from home,” said Ms. Andrews, 53, a stay-at-home parent who lives just outside London, in Surrey.

Of rules or regulations: forbidding the populace to leave their domicile except under emergency or other special circumstances, especially for purposes of quarantine.

stay-at-home orders

In April Jenny Rappaport sat down to inspect her calendar because she could not tell how many days had passed since New Jersey’s stay-at-home order took effect.

Of or relating to quarantine in the home.

the stay-at-home era

stay-at-home boredom

Not ever travelling or moving far from home.

He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them—the ship; and so is their country—the sea.

Playing very defensively; not leaving the defensive zone early.

A person or animal that prefers to stay at home rather than socialize or travel.

I had a fancy to go there [Archangel in Russia]. Now my fancy has been gratified, and there is yet another place written down in the charts of my experience. And it is always a little saddening to exchange a dream for a reality—once also the Caucasus was a name crowded with boundless possibility, and I went there and saw what it was. I almost envy those stay-at-homes for whom Europe and the world is quite unproved.

Some animals are stay-at-homes, and some are travelers and migrate. Tommy, who finds this out, is a little like both.

A parent who is not employed and rather devoting more time to children.

We [women], I guess, got into the habit of being stay-at-homes while our children were small because you’re not there during the day with them, you tend to spend your evenings and weekends [with them] […]

Many of the women domestics and store clerks become stay-at-homes by default. Their immersion in their own needs, their hunger for something, prompts a comparison to Winesburg, Ohio (1919) and the white aspiration theme of so much 1920s work fiction.