(a.) Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.
(a.) Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
(a.) Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
(a.) Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.
(n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.
(n.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(2) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(3) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
(4) For services to Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence.
(5) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(6) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(7) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(8) It has been found that in the first year of life, in females from a population selected for domesticated behavior (tame), there is no differentiated adrenal response to different doses of ACTH.
(9) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
(10) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(11) A lost generation of 14 million out-of-work and disengaged young Europeans is costing member states a total of €153bn (£124bn) a year – 1.2% of the EU's gross domestic product – the largest study of the young unemployed has concluded.
(12) In Britain, the European election is overwhelmingly seen through the prism of domestic politics.
(13) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
(14) All became highly managed, "domesticated" landscapes that demanded a huge input of labour to build and maintain.
(15) They have not remotely done this so far, largely from fear of domestic political consequences that cannot be simply dismissed.
(16) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
(17) In South Korea they have set a goal for every home in the country to have domestic robots by 2020.
(18) Two types of mechanoreceptor have been found in the articular capsule of the knee joint of the domestic cat--Ruffini corpuscles and Pacinian corpuscles.
(19) Changes in brain size are compared with observations found in other domesticated birds.
(20) Investigations carried out in Pavlodar Province have shown that 7 species of ixodid ticks, Ixodes crenulatus, I. lividus, I. persulcatus, I. laguri laguri, Dermacentor marginatus, D. reticulatus, Haemaphysalis concinna, and one brought species, Hyalomma asiaticum, parasitize domestic animals and wild mammals.
Nationwide
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(2) The dramatic nationwide increase of primary and secondary syphilis in women has precipitated a dramatic rise in congenital syphilis.
(3) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(4) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
(5) The City watchdog said call handlers at Yorkshire, the UK’s second-biggest building society after Nationwide, failed to deal properly with customers who contacted the society about problems paying their mortgage.
(6) The closures are part of a nationwide move to shut large numbers of urban public schools and set up privately run, publicly funded charters .
(7) Prices nationwide are increasing at an annual rate of 10%, and the average property in the capital is now worth almost eight times the average income.
(8) Indeed, his reaction to the nationwide citizens' revolt reveals ominous parallels with another autocratic leader who has recently found himself in a tight spot: Vladimir Putin.
(9) In a nationwide investigation in South Africa, 25 affected individuals in 15 Afrikaner kindreds have been studied.
(10) The last major international bank with branches nationwide, Citi announced it would close all of its network presence outside of Greece’s two major cities, Athens and Thessaloniki.
(11) Rival lender Nationwide reported a fall in house prices of 0.2% in September , the first decrease in 17 months.
(12) Lloyds TSB, Cheltenham & Gloucester and Nationwide have SVRs of 2.5% while the Woolwich transfers existing customers to a tracker of base rate plus 0.95% - a pay rate of a minuscule 1.44%.
(13) Through the collaboration of 22 institutions nationwide, a total of 1,185 cases of ovarian cancer treated between January, 1980 and December, 1987, were investigated as to their prognosis from the aspect of the chemotherapeutic effect.
(14) The pace of decline slowed in the first quarter of the year, dropping from 8% at the end of last year to 4.1%, Nationwide said, while the annual rate of decline fell from 34.2% to 29.6%.
(15) In 1970, this surveillance system failed to realize one of its major goals: detection of a nationwide epidemic of septicemia caused by contaminated intravenous products.
(16) After the 2009 shooting, the US military tightened security at bases nationwide.
(17) This deficiency poses significant problems for hospitals because DRGs are used nationwide as the prospective payment system for inpatients covered by Medicare.
(18) With a nationwide increase of this magnitude, 67% of the demand in our country could still be met and the estimated true need for albumin of 200 kg per million inhabitants and year would be fully covered.
(19) In 411, or 50.6%, of these certificates, the SMON Research Committee had records of the clinical pictures as a result of the nationwide surveys conducted earlier.
(20) Rival lender Nationwide building society reported that UK house prices rose by 0.1% in March , but said that in some parts of the country prices had fallen since the start of the year.