bell ringer
bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
homer
home run | a base hit on which the batter scores a run |
| home game | a game played at home |
| home invasion | burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home |
| home study | a course of study carried out at home rather than in a classroom |
harvest harvesting
harvest home | the gathering of a ripened crop |
| home banking | banking in which transactions are conducted by means of electronic communication (via telephone or computer) |
camper
camping bus
motor home | a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling |
custom-made
custom-built | an item made to the customer's specifications |
detention home
detention house
house of detention
detention camp | an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) |
dwelling
home
domicile
abode
habitation
dwelling house | housing that someone is living in, he built a modest dwelling near the pond, they raise money to provide homes for the homeless |
funeral home
funeral parlor
funeral parlour
funeral chapel
funeral church
funeralesidence | a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects |
headquarters central office
main office
home office
home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
home nursing home
rest home | an institution where people are cared for, a home for the elderly |
home appliance
household appliance | an appliance that does a particular job in the home |
| home computer | a computer intended for use in the home |
| home court | (basketball) the court where the host team plays its home games |
| home-farm | a farm that supplies the needs of a large estate of establishment |
home plate
home base home plate | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands, it must be touched by a base runner in order to score, he ruled that the runner failed to touch home |
home room
homeroom | a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business |
home theater
home theatre | television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater |
mental hospital
psychiatric hospital
mental institution
institution mental home
insane asylum
asylum | a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person |
mobile home
manufactured home | a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing |
| ready-made | a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase, their apartment was furnished with ready-mades |
reservoir artificial lake
man-made lake | lake used to store water for community use |
soap scoop max
liquid ecstasy
grievous bodily harm
goop
Georgia home boy
easy lay | street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate |
| stately home | a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family |
| tailor-made | custom-made clothing |
| vacation home | a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation |
| home truth | an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself) |
home economics
home ec
domestic science
household arts | theory and practice of homemaking |
home page
homepage | the opening page of a web site |
| home movie | a film made at home by an amateur photographer |
tonic key
home key | the basic key in which a piece of music is written |
| home stand | a series of successive games played at a team's home field or court |
home fries
home-fried potatoes | sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp |
home brew
homebrew | an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home |
| home folk | folks from your own home town |
| broken home | a family in which the parents have separated or divorced |
| foster home | a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) |
family household
house home
menage | a social unit living together, he moved his family to Virginia, It was a good Christian household, I waited until the whole house was asleep, the teacher asked how many people made up his home |
| Home Office | the government department in charge of domestic affairs |
| home front | the civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war |
| at home | a reception held in your own home |
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
Freddie Mac
FHLMC | a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages |
| home guard | a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere |
National Guard
home reserve | United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government, subject to call by either |
| Home Loan Bank | one of regional banks that monitor and make short-term credit advances to thrift institutions in their region |
| Federal Home Loan Bank System | the central credit system for thrift institutions |
| home | the country or state or city where you live, Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home, his home is New Jersey |