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mom

US /mɑm/

noun Target · B2 Đời sống hằng ngày

Definition

informal terms for a mother

Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.

Examples

My mom picked me up from the station after work.

Synonyms

  • mothera woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
  • mommyinformal terms for a mother

Collocations

  • Easy working mom
    to working mom, meaning to exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
  • Medium stay-at-home mom considerations
    describing stay-at-home mom considerations (a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel)
  • Hard mom and pop retail competition pressure
    describing mom and pop retail competition pressure (informal terms for a mother)
  • Very Hard decimate traditional mom and pop enterprises
    to decimate traditional mom and pop enterprises, meaning to kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

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