displaced homemaker

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Noun

displaced homemaker (plural displaced homemakers)

  1. (Canada, US) A woman who no longer has a reliable source of income from her husband, as a result of divorce, widowhood, disability, etc.
    • 1980, Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Integrating Displaced Homemakers into the Economy, page 14:
      Peer group support is important to displaced homemakers. The Displaced Homemakers' Network has done excellent work in helping women see that their problems do not have to be chronic.