Meaning

2 senses
  1. A person employed, especially by a social services department, to perform household chores and provide aid to a patient or infirm person in the latter's own home; a carer.

    a person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work)

  2. (uncountable)The aid provided by such people.

Examples

27 sentences
  1. Tom has to stay home to help Mary.

    ruТому надо остаться дома и помочь Мэри. — marafon

  2. Tom doesn't have to stay home to help Mary.

    ruТом не остался дома, чтобы помочь Мэри. — Tretiz

    deTom braucht nicht zu Hause zu bleiben, um Maria zu helfen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. I don't need to stay home to help Tom today.

    ruМне не нужно оставаться дома, чтобы помочь Тому сегодня. — BW

  4. I don't have to stay home to help Tom today.

  5. Please make yourself at home, and help yourself to some coffee.

Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: home helps
Singularhome help

uncountable

Synonyms

3 synonyms
person paid to do chores and provide aid in another's home:carer
provision of the services of such people:home carehome aid

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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