Definition of "stay-at-home" [stay-at-home]

• Inclined to remain in one's home, locality, or country. (adjective)
• Sports Not engaging much in the offensive play: a stay-at-home defenseman. (adjective)
• A person who stays at or works from home. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "When you kids were growing up, do you know what we called stay-at-home moms?"
• "Not to make up for time lost or meals missed when she was working crazy long hours on Wall Street, nor to fulfill any vision or expectation of what so-called stay-at-home moms do in a place like Palace Valley, but rather because of what too many families no longer do: talk."
• "In addition to insulting the party hostess, the Greek grandmother calls a stay-at-home dad a "wife" and tells a co-habiting unmarried couple they're going to hell."