home market
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Also see: market
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
home/həʊm/
▶noun
- 1 the place where one lives permanently.
■ a house or flat.
- 2 an institution for people needing professional care.
- 3 a place where something flourishes or from which it originated.
- 4 the finishing point in a race.
- 5 (in games) the place where a player is free from attack.
- 6 (in lacrosse) each of the three players nearest their opponents' goal.
- 1 relating to one's home.
■ made, done, or intended for use in the home.
- 2 relating to one's own country.
- 3 (of a team or player) belonging to the place in which a sporting event occurs.
■ played on a team's own ground.
- 1 to or at one's home.
- 2 to the end or conclusion of something.
- 3 to the intended or correct position: he slid the bolt home.
- 1 (of an animal) return by instinct to its territory.
- 2 (home in on) move or be aimed towards.
- 3 provide (a pet) with a home.
– phrases
at home
close (or near) to home (of a remark) accurate to the point that one feels uncomfortable.
come home Golf play the last nine holes in a round of eighteen.
drive (or hammer) something home stress a point forcefully.
hit (or strike) home (of words) have the intended effect.
(a) home from (or N. Amer. away from) home a place where one feels as comfortable as in one's own home.
at home
- 1 comfortable and at ease.
- 2 ready to receive visitors.
close (or near) to home (of a remark) accurate to the point that one feels uncomfortable.
come home Golf play the last nine holes in a round of eighteen.
drive (or hammer) something home stress a point forcefully.
hit (or strike) home (of words) have the intended effect.
■ (of the significance of a situation) be fully realized.
home and dry (N. Amer. home free, Austral./NZ home and hosed) having achieved one's objective.(a) home from (or N. Amer. away from) home a place where one feels as comfortable as in one's own home.
– derivatives
homeless adjective,
homelessness noun,
homelike adjective.
homeless adjective,
homelessness noun,
homelike adjective.
– origin OE hām, of Gmc origin.
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