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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The aid provided by such people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
a person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: domestic, domestic help, house servant
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