(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is someone who is employed to work at another person’s home, for example as a cleaner or a gardener.
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2.
You can use ~ to refer to someone or something that provides a service for people or can be used by them.
The question is whether technology is going to be our ~ or our master.
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see also civil ~