SAHM

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proper noun

A surname.

UncommonScrabble 9

Meanings

SAHM1

nounSAHM (plural SAHMs)

plural SAHMs

  1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of stay-at-home mom/mum/mother.

    I've been thinking recently about the importance of taking my job as a SAHM seriously.

    2005, Meredith Efken, SAHM I Am, Steeple Hill Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 83
    2 more examples

    I took our son everywhere with me, and frankly, that is one of the best parts of being a SAHM: when you have your child with you and you're both involved in some outside activities, you not only have more bonding time, but your child is exposed to a wide range of real-world activities and people […]

    2009, Laura Schlessinger, In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms, Harper, published 2010, →ISBN, page 45

    In the most radical cases, a SAHM might suffer from all these maladies at once, and her life becomes a Sisyphean struggle to maintain body, home, children and community work, according to unimpeachable standards.

    2011, Samantha Parent Walravens, Torn: True Stories of Kids, Career & the Conflict of Modern Motherhood, Coffeetown Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 196

Sahm2

proper nounSahm (plural Sahms)

plural Sahms

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APA

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