domestic violence

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   violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or domestic partner or other members of a household

   Broaderviolence

Questions about domestic violence

What does domestic violence mean?

domestic violence means "violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or domestic partner or other members of a household".

Is domestic violence a common word?

domestic violence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.