Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to an abode, or the residence of a person or a family.
- In zoology, constituting or pertaining to a protective or investing envelop or case in which an animal lives: as, the domiciliary structure of an infusorian; a domiciliary secretion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law : A person who legally
resides in a particular place. - adjective Of or relating to a
domicile .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or provided in a domicile
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Examples
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It was called the domiciliary, Santorum told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review when his father died in 2011.
News 2011
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These services also contribute to a reduction in the demand for placements in residential care and for long-term domiciliary care services, against a background of an increasing elderly population.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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Hospital and the Vodafone Portugal Foundation, will significantly improve the health related quality of life in patients with respiratory failure who are prescribed long term domiciliary oxygen therapy (LTOT).
WN.com - Articles related to New mobile banking: Obopay allows you to convert cash into phone-money 2010
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Hospital and the Vodafone Portugal Foundation, will significantly improve the health related quality of life in patients with respiratory failure who are prescribed long term domiciliary oxygen therapy (LTOT).
WN.com - Articles related to New mobile banking: Obopay allows you to convert cash into phone-money 2010
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All foreigners that came to settle in Palestine were baptized; they were called domiciliary proselytes.
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I am unable to verify this kind of domiciliary participation at the website below.
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This kind of domiciliary visit may appear a joking matter, but to live under a state of siege is no subject for pleasantry, as I shall show further on.
East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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"It was, I suppose, what you might call a domiciliary visit.
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In the weeks which followed, several domiciliary visits were paid, not a shack or tent in Nome escaping, but Fortune lay in his cranny undisturbed.
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Companions is a micro-enterprise: a tiny domiciliary care service set up after workers consulted with a small group of older people and found that, although they were receiving care in their homes, they really wanted support to visit their friends because bus travel was proving too difficult.
We need to relax regulations to stimulate creativity in social care 2011
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