- 1
Homeworking is the practice of doing your paid job in your own house instead of going out to an office or factory. It names the arrangement, not the person — the person is a . Companies talk about a homeworking policy; newspapers talk about the rise of homeworking. Like , the word is more British than American, and it used to bring to mind piecework done at home. Now it often just means working from home, though it still sounds a little more official than that everyday phrase. You can say “homeworking has become common,” but not “he is a homeworking.”
在家工作、居家工作(指這種做事的方式或制度,不是指那個人)
組成home + working (the doing of work).
同家族的字
- homewhere the work happens
- homeworkerthe person who does the job at home
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
homeworkingnoun
- 1
Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。