domestically

/dəmˈɛstɪkli/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English

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"The wind-down of OPIC is also consistent with the President’s commitment to focus less overseas and more domestically, and will achieve savings in OPIC’s administrative and subsidy expenses."
"Athletic have been showing signs of fatigue domestically and they never quite seemed to reach the same pitch of intensity that had so unsettled Manchester United and Schalke 04 in earlier rounds."

Etymology tree English domestic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English domestically From domestic + -ally.

more domestically (comparative) most domestically (superlative)

intradomestically peridomestically

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How do you pronounce domestically?

The recorded pronunciation is /dəmˈɛstɪkli/.

What does domestically mean?

In a domestic manner.

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