home /; AmE / adjective, adverb

■ adjective [only before noun]

AT-HOME, IN-HOME, STAY-AT-HOME

1

connected with the place where sb lives:

a person's home address/town

They offer free home delivery on all their products.

The airline has its home base at Glasgow Airport.

2

connected with the place where a business or an organization is established:

We established excellent distribution networks in our home state of North Carolina.

3

used or made at home:

a home computer

4 (especially BrE)

connected with your own country or region rather than foreign countries or regions:

products for the home market

The firm dominates its home market but has struggled to gain market share abroad.

SYN DOMESTIC

■ adverb

IDIOMS

bring home the bacon (informal)

to earn money for your company, your family, etc.; to be successful at sth:

The quality of your product is what is going to bring home the bacon.

take/bring home sth

to earn the amount mentioned:

The directors took home an additional $5 million in bonuses.

After tax and pension contributions I could bring home around €400 a week.

TAKE-HOME PAY

• risky
• rival
• rivalry
• ROA
• road
• road consignment note
• road haulage
• road haulier
• roadshow
• roaming
• roar
• roaring
• ROB
• robot
• ROC
• ROCE
• rock bottom
• rocket
• rocket science
• ROE
• rogue trader
• ROI
• ROIC
• role
• role playing