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  1. servants

    A domestic worker or domestic servant is a person who works within the scope of a residence. The term "domestic service" applies to the equivalent occupational category. In traditional English contexts, such a person was said to be "in service". Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual, from providing cleaning and household maintenance, or cooking, laundry and ironing, or care for children and elderly dependents, and other household errands. Some domestic workers live within their employer's household. In some cases, the contribution and skill of servants whose work encompassed complex management tasks in large households have been highly valued. However, for the most part, domestic work tends to be demanding and is commonly considered to be undervalued, despite often being necessary. Although legislation protecting domestic workers is in place in many countries, it is often not extensively enforced. In many jurisdictions, domestic work is poorly regulated and domestic workers are subject to serious abuses, including slavery.Servant is an older English word for "domestic worker", though not all servants worked inside the home. Domestic service, or the employment of people for wages in their employer's residence, was sometimes simply called "service" and has often been part of a hierarchical system. In Britain a highly developed system of domestic service peaked towards the close of the Victorian era, perhaps reaching its most complicated and rigidly structured state during the Edwardian period (a period known in the United States as the Gilded Age and in France as the Belle Époque), which reflected the limited social mobility before World War I.

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  1. servants

    In the British service, regimental and staff officers are allowed the indulgence of a steady and well-drilled soldier for a servant; and field-officers, keeping horses, two each. These soldiers are to take their share of any duty on which the officer to whom they are attached is employed, and they must fall in with their respective troops and companies at all reviews, inspections, and field-days. In the U. S. service, officers are not permitted to employ soldiers as servants.

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'servants' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3281

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'servants' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4563

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of servants in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of servants in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of servants in a Sentence

  1. Norachit Sinhaseni:

    About 2.5 percent of the Senate can be civil servants, or by my calculations, about six people.

  2. Sheldon Whitehouse:

    We got to keep the spotlight on the six Republicans in the building behind me who are the servants of right-wing dark money interests, that is no place for a court to be in our great republic, and we have got to call it out.

  3. Nathaniel Emmons:

    Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

  4. Merrick Garland:

    Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to the nation's core values.

  5. Asma Aziz:

    He took my clothes off in front of his servants. The servants held me as he shaved my hair off and burned it. My clothes were bloody. I was bound by a pipe and hung from the fan. He threatened to hang me naked.

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