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schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom ( distinguished from classwork ).

a single assignment of such schoolwork: Homeworks are due at the beginning of class.

paid work done at home , as piecework.

thorough preparatory study of a subject: to do one's homework for the next committee meeting.

Origin of homework

Words nearby homework.

  • homewrecker
  • homichlophobia

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How to use homework in a sentence

Now, they log on to Zoom from their bedrooms, surrounded by unfinished homework assignments and tattered stuffed animals, waiting to be assigned calls, texts and emails by the trained therapists who oversee the program.

Yow started her homework and saw Frese had gone 35-22 with two winning seasons at Ball State, which hadn’t had a winning record in its previous nine seasons.

Do some homework before investing in a diamond, and that lifelong commitment.

Another poster included an image of their losses over what appeared to be online math homework .

As we countdown to Inauguration Day, I've been doing my homework —and looking to the past for inspiration.

“I can help my children with their homework and sometimes we text in English at my job,” Santos says.

Scheunemann, meanwhile, had no idea who Spencer was, and did some homework .

She jumped at the chance to watch RT, or jumped at the chance to skip calculus homework .

And we encourage parent-student “contracts,” for class attendance, homework submission and even extra-curriculum activities.

Adicéam did his homework , spending 50 days collecting pieces, many with unexpected stories behind them.

Much of this homework is done by a very bad light and the boy's eyes suffer much.

For homework we have prepared alphabets where the letters are printed in type-writing order.

His parents were always getting angry with him for losing his clothes, or his toys, or his homework .

Only at the time when he was going to Beauregard School, with his homework .

And once a week or twice a week she was sending her homework or something to him.

British Dictionary definitions for homework

/ ( ˈhəʊmˌwɜːk ) /

school work done out of lessons, esp at home

any preparatory study

work done at home for pay

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with homework

see do one's homework.

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Definition of homework noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

  • acquire/get/lack experience/training/(an) education
  • receive/provide somebody with training
  • develop/design/plan a curriculum/course/program/syllabus
  • give/go to/attend a class/lesson/lecture/seminar
  • hold/run/conduct a class/seminar/workshop
  • moderate/lead/facilitate a discussion
  • sign up for/take a course/classes/lessons
  • go to/start preschool/kindergarten/nursery school
  • be in the first, second, etc. grade (at school)
  • study/take/drop history/chemistry/German, etc.
  • finish/drop out of/quit school
  • graduate from high school/college
  • be the victim/target of bullying/teasing
  • skip/cut/ ( informal ) ditch class/school
  • cheat on an exam/a test
  • get/be given a detention (for doing something)
  • be expelled from/be suspended from school
  • do your homework/a project on something
  • work on/write/do/submit an essay/a dissertation/a thesis/an assignment/a paper
  • finish/complete your dissertation/thesis/studies
  • hand in/turn in your homework/essay/assignment/paper
  • study/prepare/review/ ( informal ) cram for a test/an exam
  • take/ ( formal ) sit for a test/an exam
  • grade homework/a test
  • do well on/ ( informal ) ace a test/an exam
  • pass/fail/ ( informal ) flunk a test/an exam/a class/a course/a subject
  • apply to/get into/go to/start college
  • leave/graduate from college (with a degree in computer science)/law school
  • study for/work towards a law degree/a degree in physics
  • major/minor in biology/philosophy
  • earn/receive/be awarded/get/have/hold a master's degree/a bachelor's degree/a Ph.D. in economics

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Yet in a speech that defined the problems, there was a sense of someone halfway through a horrible homework assignment .
In 1996, she sentenced a school trustee to a massive homework assignment .
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Do Homeschoolers Have Homework?

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  • Feb 4, 2021

When the topic of homeschooling comes up, many people get a quizzical look on their faces before they ask a funny question: “Do homeschoolers have homework?” My first response —and that of my own children — is “ All of our work is home work!" Actually, the answer is more complex than saying because we do school at home, all our work is homework.

What about the classes my children take outside the home at a co-op or with a tutor? Is that homework just because we are homeschoolers? What about the field trips we take to zoos, museums, and theaters? Surely those cannot be called homework , right?

First Define Homework

According to Merriam-Webster, the school related definition of homework is an assignment given to a student to be completed outside the regular class period.

Using this definition in our homeschool context, I would say yes, my children have homework. I would also go so far to say that pretty much all of their formal bookwork is homework . Why?

My teenage children use curriculum that is mostly self-taught and student-directed . That means I'm not really teaching or holding class. They have a basic outline that tells them what needs to be accomplished each week. Working within that framework, they study independently. I may be in the room, but I'm not directing their learning. I assist only when questions arise. So in our homeschool, I deem independent work analogous to homework for students learning in a more traditional school setting.

Do Homeschoolers Have Homework?

Maybe Homeschoolers Do Not Have Homework

On the flip side of our working definition, you could say that since homeschooled children do not attend a class in the traditional sense that that they do not have homework at all. 

Homework for homeschoolers becomes an all or nothing proposition. Everything we do is homework because we are learning at home. Or none of our work is homework because we are learning at home.

A Thought About the Value of Homework

Viewing homework as work done outside of class, outside the direct supervision of a teacher or parent, homework can be translated into homeschool parlance as  independent work . I find great value in having our children engage in independent work especially as they grow into the middle school and high school years.

Homework or independent work helps teach responsibility . It allows children the space to own their work and take on the task of getting it done on their terms, within the allotted time given.

Perseverance is another lesson to be learned from homework. Not having a teacher or parent hovering over head to jump in at every stumbling block gives kids the opportunity to struggle a little, problem solve on their own, and eventually be confident of their own abilities.

Independent work teaches time management . When students are set to a task to complete on their own, in a given framework of time, it pushes them to create a plan and work out how the will manage their time to complete the task on schedule.

So in the end do homeschoolers have homework? Maybe not by the standard definition, but independent work shares many characteristics of homework. And homeschoolers definitely have that !

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The Legal Definition of Death Needs to Be Clearer

Debate about brain death has prevented needed revisions to the Uniform Determination of Death Act

By Ariane Lewis

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As a neurologist who specializes in critical care, I believe we need a clearer, more consistent legal definition of death. The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), the legal standard for death throughout the U.S., has deficiencies, particularly with respect to the description of death by neurologic criteria, aka brain death. This causes confusion and moral distress for both families and health care teams and can lead to protracted lawsuits about whether a person is alive or dead.

Historically, doctors declared death when a person was not breathing and had no heartbeat or palpable pulse. This occasionally caused controversy because they declared death prematurely. Declaring death became even more complicated as the 20th century progressed. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and ventilators allowed vital functions to continue in people who previously would have died. Some of these people were comatose as a result of catastrophic brain injuries and would never be able to breathe on their own because of damage to the lowest part of the brain stem.

In 1968 a group chaired by anesthesiologist Henry Beecher and composed of experts in neurology, physiology, biochemistry, law and social ethics convened at Harvard University to examine the definition of “irreversible coma,” which subsequently became known as “brain death/death by neurologic criteria.” They noted that the characteristics of irreversible coma—a permanently nonfunctioning brain—included unreceptivity and unresponsiveness, no movements or spontaneous breathing (apnea) and no brain stem reflexes.

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The group believed that this definition of death would not require statutory changes because the law treated the question of death as a matter to be determined by clinicians, whom, they felt, would accept these standards. But legal disputes prompted President Jimmy Carter and Congress to ask a commission to develop legal guidance on the definition of death. The commission collaborated with members of the American Bar Association, the American Medical Association and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, in addition to philosophers, religious officials and ethicists. They produced the UDDA, a recommended statute, in 1981 with the goal that all states would adopt it. The UDDA indicates that death can be declared, in accordance with accepted medical standards, on one of two grounds: irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem. Every state accepted the UDDA, in language or in spirit.

Over the past decade, however, highly publicized lawsuits and debates amongst clinicians, ethicists, philosophers and lawyers have shown weaknesses of the UDDA, which I believe we need to address. For example, the UDDA does not provide guidance about whether clinicians need to obtain consent from a person’s family prior to a brain death evaluation or how to handle objections. Families sometimes ask clinicians not to perform a brain death evaluation or to continue ventilator support after a brain death declaration. They may refuse to accept that brain death is death according to their social, cultural, philosophical or religious beliefs. This creates challenges for clinicians and hospitals because most states provide no legal guidance about whether to perform the evaluation and subsequently discontinue ventilator support after a declaration of brain death in spite of objections or to provide families the ability to opt out. California and New York State vaguely require reasonable accommodation of objections, and Illinois notes that religious beliefs should be taken into consideration when determining time of death. New Jersey law uniquely states that if a patient is known to have religious beliefs that oppose a declaration of brain death, ventilator support and all other medical interventions should be continued until their heart stops beating. All this variation adds confusion. We need a consistent national approach to the declaration of death.

Additionally, some experts—such as Michael Nair-Collins, an associate professor of behavioral sciences and social medicine at Florida State University College of Medicine—argue that the medical brain death guidelines do not fit the UDDA’s requirement for “irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem.” Nair-Collins believes that to be in accordance with the UDDA, the brain death evaluation should require assessment for loss of hormonal secretion from the pituitary gland and hypothalamus. No country requires this, however.

In 2021 the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) convened a drafting committee to discuss revisions to the UDDA. The purpose of the ULC is to strengthen the federal system by generating consistent rules across states. The commissioners invited participation from more than 100 people with relevant expertise, including representatives from medical, organ procurement and advocacy organizations. Unfortunately, although there was widespread support for revising the UDDA, in the fall of 2023 the commission paused the drafting committee’s work indefinitely because of concerns that diverse views about death would prevent the revisions from being widely adopted.

Like most of my medical colleagues who sent comments to the ULC, I favor changing the UDDA to align the law with clinical practice. For example, instead of the controversial phrase “cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem,” the law should state that brain death declaration requires coma, loss of brain stem reflexes and inability to breathe spontaneously in the setting of an adequate stimulus.

There will always be varying religious, philosophical, ethical and cultural perspectives on death, but society needs a clear legal standard that is consistent with medical practice throughout the country. Given that the ULC was not able to accomplish this, I believe this may need to be addressed on a national level.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent any affiliated organization.

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Trump will dispute NYC judge’s definition of ‘fraud’ in appeal of $355 million fine: report

F ormer President Donald Trump will contest Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s definition of “fraud” when he appeals the $355 million judgment made against him last week in his civil trial, according to his lawyer. 

“The case raises serious legal and constitutional questions regarding ‘fraud’ claims/findings without any actual fraud,” Trump’s attorney, Christopher Kise, told Newsweek Monday. 

Kise further charged that Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James – both Democrats – are attempting to force Trump out of New York to the detriment of the city.

The lawyer did not specify exactly when an appeal would be filed, noting that the timing “will depend on many factors” but will “fall within the 30-day clock” allowed by the court, the outlet reported . 

On Friday, Engoron, a 74-year-old cab driver-turned-judge , ordered Trump, 77, to pay the massive fine and barred the former president’s sons – Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump – from doing business in the state for two years after finding that the Trump Organization overvalued assets to secure loans and deals from banks and insurers in the Empire State. 

The judge’s verdict also ordered Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump to pay $4 million apiece and banned Trump Organization executives Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney from serving as company officers for three years.

Trump’s appeal will need to demonstrate that James does not possess the power to punish him “without showing the traditional elements of fraud: (1) scienter—basically intent to defraud, (2) false statements of fact rather than opinion or trade puffing, (3) reasonable reliance by the victims, (4) materiality, (5) causation, and (6) damages,” Syracuse University of Law Professor Greg Germain told Newsweek. 

“I think he has a strong argument that when the attorney general seeks to punish for past use, rather than prevent future use, she would have to show all of the traditional elements of fraud,” he added.

The New York AG is likely to counter that under state law, her broad powers to investigate and prosecute cases of alleged civil fraud don’t require her to prove that all six elements exist, according to Germain.

Trump railed against the Empire State’s fraud law last October, suggesting it was unconstitutional. 

“NY Executive Law 63 (12) does not require a victim, traditional elements of fraud are eliminated (the only such law!), the law allows a politically elected partisan prosecutor to convince a politically elected judge, who may be friends to destroy even a Political Opponent,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“This law may not be Constitutional and is not FAIR, and that is why terrible A.G. James chose to use it against me!!!” he raged.

Trump will dispute NYC judge’s definition of ‘fraud’ in appeal of $355 million fine: report

How Americans define a middle-class lifestyle — and why they can’t reach it

A poll from The Washington Post finds widespread agreement among Americans on what it means to be middle class. But just over a third of U.S. adults have the financial security to meet that definition, according to a Post analysis of data from the Federal Reserve.

Americans also underestimate the income required for that lifestyle, suggesting that the popular image of middle-class security is more of an aspiration than a reality for most Americans.

About 9 in 10 U.S. adults said that six individual indicators of financial security and stability were necessary parts of being middle class in the Post poll. Smaller majorities thought other milestones, such as homeownership and a job with paid sick leave, were necessary.

“Middle class-ness and predictability are very tied in the American imagination,” said Caitlin Zaloom, an anthropology professor at New York University. “Sometimes that is about security in the present, but it also means feeling secure about where life is going.”

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Just over a third of Americans met all six markers of a middle-class lifestyle. While about 9 in 10 Americans had health insurance, only three-quarters had health insurance and a steady job. With each added measure of financial security, more Americans slipped away from the middle-class ideal.

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Researchers often define the middle class based on income, in part because income data is frequently collected and easy to access. But that income doesn’t guarantee a middle-class lifestyle.

One commonly used definition from the Pew Research Center sets a middle-class income between two-thirds and twice the national median income, or $67,819 to $203,458 for a family of four in 2022. Most Americans consider the lower end of that range, $75,000 and $100,000, to be middle class, according to the Post poll.

Even when looking at middle-income Americans using Pew’s more expansive range, the majority did not have the security associated with the middle class.

Those that did tended to be older, had higher incomes and were more likely to have a college education and own their homes. While the Post poll found 60 percent of Americans considered homeownership essential to being middle class, homeowners over age 30 were more likely to be financially secure even when comparing people with similar ages and incomes, according to a Federal Reserve survey .

The most common barrier was a comfortable retirement, something that about half of middle-income Americans over 35 felt they were on track to achieve.

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and older; younger people did not have to meet the retirement criteria to meet the full definition.

Gallup polling last spring found that retirement was Americans’ top financial worry. Even for those who can save, retirement planning requires complicated judgments about how long someone expects to live and the future of government support through programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

How the graying of America is reshaping the workforce and economy

“The de facto landscape now for retirement is to save like hell and hope you don’t live too long,” said Ben Harris, vice president and director of economic studies at Brookings. “And that’s a terrible paradigm.”

The shift from defined benefit plans to individual retirement accounts has increased the importance of saving for retirement, at the same time as rising housing and student loan payments are taking up a growing share of income, according to Annamaria Lusardi, senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

“There was a time in which family income was a lot more defining about your life and your financial security,” Lusardi said. “But now you are in charge of much more of your future, particularly in terms of the financial decisions that people have been asked to make.”

While the path to middle-class financial security has become more complicated, the share of people with it hasn’t markedly declined over time.

Since 2017, the earliest year of comparable data, between 32 and 40 percent of Americans met all six measures, with a low in 2017 and a high in 2021.

Are you rich? How your net worth compares to the rest of America.

Another survey, the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances, provides a broader view of American financial stability back to the 1980s. More Americans today have $1,000 in liquid savings than they did 40 years ago, after adjusting for inflation. And the share of Americans with money in a retirement or pension account has held steady over the past 40 years.

“The idea that you can have a secure job with predictable wages, with health care and retirement, and being able to pay for your housing — those things are all part of a mid-century vision of the middle-class life trajectory,” said Zaloom, the anthropologist.

“Even in the 1960s, the idea that this was a very widespread phenomenon was always kind of a fiction,” she added.

The draw of the middle class is rooted in far more than the desire for financial security.

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“It’s the perfect model of American identity,” said cultural historian Larry Samuel, author of “ The American Middle Class: A Cultural History .” “It fits so well with our ethos of egalitarianism and being a meritocracy. These are all myths, of course, but they’re embedded in how we see ourselves.”

“It’s a club that everyone kind of wants to be a part of,” Samuel said, “regardless of your economic circumstances.”

About this story

Sonia Vargas and Dylan Moriarty contributed to this report.

This Washington Post poll was conducted Nov. 3-6, 2023, among a national sample of 1,280 U.S. adults with an error margin of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points. The sample was drawn through SSRS’s Opinion Panel, an ongoing survey panel recruited through random sampling of U.S. households. To enable subgroup comparisons, the survey included oversamples of households with lower incomes. This and other groups were weighted back to their share of the adult population according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The definitions of low, middle and upper household incomes are based on values from the 2023 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey. All household incomes are adjusted for size via an equivalence adjustment scale, following the Pew Research Center’s methodology .

Analysis of the financial security of American households uses data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) and the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF).

The middle class criteria were defined as follows for each survey:

  • Steady job: had a non-temporary job or were already retired (SHED 2017-2022); working, retired, disabled, student or homemaker (SCF).
  • Cover emergency expenses: could pay a $1,000 emergency expense using only their savings (SHED 2022 for point in time analysis); would pay a $400/500 emergency expense using their savings or a credit card they would pay off in full at the end of the month (SHED 2017-2022 for historical analysis); had at least $1,000 in liquid assets (SCF).
  • Pay bills: were able to pay all their bills in full during the month of the survey and would be able to pay those bills even if they had had to pay an emergency expense of $400 or $500 (SHED 2017-2022); no late debt payments in the last year (SCF).
  • Health insurance: had health insurance (SHED 2017-2022); not applicable for SCF.
  • Comfortable retirement: feel that their retirement savings are on track, or are already retired and feel they are doing at least okay financially; individuals under 35 did not have to meet this criteria to be considered middle class (SHED 2017-2022); any amount in retirement savings or pension accounts (SCF).
  • Save for the future: spent no more than their household income in the last month or has a rainy-day fund that can cover three months of expenses (SHED 2017-2022); saved over the last 12 months (SCF)

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Washington D.C., Feb. 16, 2024 —

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee today released the agenda for its meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 27, which will include a discussion of the accredited investor definition and initial public offerings (IPOs). Members of the public can watch the live meeting via webcast on www.sec.gov.

The Committee, which provides advice and recommendations to the Commission on rules, regulations, and policy matters relating to small businesses, will start the morning session by hearing from its members about marketplace trends in small business capital raising.The SEC’s Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation will also provide an overview of its 2023 Annual Report, which includes in-depth data on the state of capital raising activity from startup to small cap along with the Office’s policy recommendations. The Committee will spend the rest of the morning considering potential recommendations regarding changes to the accredited investor definition, building upon ideas generated during a previous Committee meeting.

In the afternoon session, following remarks from the Acting Director of the SEC’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, the Committee will explore the state of the IPO market. Recognizing that IPO activity has fallen significantly in recent years and that there are a declining number of smaller public companies, invited speakers will share relevant IPO data and their views on contributory factors and trends in the marketplace. As part of the discussion, the Committee will consider how decreased IPO activity and market shifts are impacting smaller companies and related capital raising challenges.

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  1. Homework Definition & Meaning

    1 : piecework done at home for pay 2 : an assignment given to a student to be completed outside the regular class period 3 : preparatory reading or research (as for a discussion or a debate) Examples of homework in a Sentence She started her algebra homework.

  2. HOMEWORK

    to study a subject or situation carefully so that you know a lot about it and can deal with it successfully: The company working on the project had clearly done their homework on universal design issues. (Definition of homework from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of homework

  3. HOMEWORK Definition & Usage Examples

    noun schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom ( distinguished from classwork ). a single assignment of such schoolwork: Homeworks are due at the beginning of class. paid work done at home, as piecework. thorough preparatory study of a subject: to do one's homework for the next committee meeting. AnyClip Product Demo 2022

  4. HOMEWORK Synonyms: 11 Similar Words

    Synonyms for HOMEWORK: schoolwork, lesson, reading, lecture, assignment, practise, practice, exercise, drill, study

  5. HOMEWORK definition in American English

    1. work, esp. piecework, done at home 2. lessons to be studied or schoolwork to be done outside the classroom 3. US study or research in preparation for some project, activity, etc. : used mainly in the phrase do one's homework Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

  6. homework noun

    (informal) work that somebody does to prepare for something You could tell that he had really done his homework (= found out all he needed to know). See homework in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary Check pronunciation: homework Definition of homework noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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    Definition of homework noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  8. Homework

    homework: 1 n preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) Synonyms: prep , preparation Type of: school assignment , schoolwork a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher

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    homework - WordReference English dictionary, questions, discussion and forums. All Free. ... Look up "homework" at Merriam-Webster Look up "homework" at dictionary.com. Go to Preferences page and choose from different actions for taps or mouse clicks. In other languages: Spanish ...

  10. homework

    GRAMMAR: Countable or uncountable? • Homework is an uncountable noun and is not used in the plural. You say: The teacher gave us a lot of homework. Don't say: The teacher gave us a lot of homeworks. • Homework is always followed by a singular verb. The homework was really difficult.

  11. HOMEWORK

    A1 work that teachers give students to do at home: Have you done your homework yet? Fewer examples Go upstairs and do your homework. For your homework, please do exercise 3 on page 24. When I finish my homework, can I watch TV? Get on with your homework. She was trying to duck out of doing her homework. do your homework

  12. Homework

    Purposes A child completing their homework The basic objectives of assigning homework to students often align with schooling in general. However, teachers have many purposes for assigning homework, including: [1] [2] [3] reinforcing skills taught in class extending skills to new situations preparing for future class lessons

  13. Homeworker Definition & Meaning

    homeworker: [noun] one that carries on remunerative employment in the home.

  14. Homework Definition & Meaning

    HOMEWORK meaning: 1 : work that a student is given to do at home; 2 : research or reading done in order to prepare for something used in the phrase {phrase}do your homework {/phrase}

  15. Homework

    1. (Education) school work done out of lessons, esp at home 2. (Education) any preparatory study 3. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) work done at home for pay Collins English Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 home•work (ˈhoʊmˌwɜrk) n.

  16. HOMEWORK

    to study a subject or situation carefully so that you know a lot about it and can deal with it successfully: The company working on the project had clearly done their homework on universal design issues. (Definition of homework from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of homework

  17. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT definition and meaning

    HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT definition | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

  18. Do Homeschoolers Have Homework?

    According to Merriam-Webster, the school related definition of homework is an assignment given to a student to be completed outside the regular class period. Using this definition in our homeschool context, I would say yes, my children have homework. I would also go so far to say that pretty much all of their formal bookwork is homework.

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    AMP: [noun] a nucleotide C10H12N5O3H2PO4 composed of adenosine and one phosphate group that is reversibly convertible to ADP and ATP in metabolic reactions — called also#R##N# adenosine monophosphate, adenylic acid; compare cyclic amp.

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  22. HOMEWORK

    A1 work that teachers give students to do at home: Have you done your homework yet? Fewer examples Go upstairs and do your homework. For your homework, please do exercise 3 on page 24. When I finish my homework, can I watch TV? Get on with your homework. She was trying to duck out of doing her homework. do your homework

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  24. DO YOUR HOMEWORK

    DO YOUR HOMEWORK definition: 1. to study a subject or situation carefully so that you know a lot about it and can deal with it…. Learn more.

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    homework definition: work that teachers give students to do at home: . Learn more.