au pair

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   a young foreigner who lives with a family in return for doing light housework

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Questions about au pair

What does au pair mean?

au pair means "a young foreigner who lives with a family in return for doing light housework".

Is au pair a common word?

au pair is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.