domestically

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US /dəˈmɛstɪkli/
adv Freq #52351

Meanings

  1. 1
    adv

    with respect to home or family

    The domestically limited conversation about kids and cooking techniques bored the dinner guests.

  2. 2
    adv

    with respect to the internal affairs of a government

    domestically, the president proposes a more moderate economic policy

  3. 3
    adv

    In a domestic manner.

    The wind-down of OPIC is also consistent with the President’s commitment to focus less overseas and more domestically, and will achieve savings in OPIC’s administrative and subsidy expenses.

  4. 4
    adv

    At home, playing in one's home ground.

    Athletic have been showing signs of fatigue domestically and they never quite seemed to reach the same pitch of intensity that had so unsettled Manchester United and Schalke 04 in earlier rounds.

Etymology

From domestic + -ally.

Thesaurus

Word family
Derived forms intradomesticallyperidomestically

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