home help

1. 1.

   a person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work)

   Broaderdomestic

   United Kingdom

Questions about home help

What does home help mean?

home help means "a person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work)".

Is home help a common word?

home help 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.