home-sets

Noun

home-set (plural home-sets)

1. Type specific to a publisher
   • Agreeing to locate advertisements in advantageous places, they agreed also to carry a certain amount of material in “home-set” print in the news and editorial columns.2015, Thomas D. Clark, Holman Hamilton, Three American Frontiers: Writings of Thomas D. Clark, →ISBN, page 46
2. Device for home entertainment
   • [R]adio now depends enormously on its replacements. Last year home-set replacements in fact account for some 3,000,000 units, or nearly three-fifths of the total U.S. home-set sales.2008, Kazuo Usui, The Development of Marketing Management, →ISBN
3. A perm that is applied at home, rather than in a beauty salon.
   • The less 'fortunate', and I use the term advisedly, had only outward growth to adjust to, as spare tyres of rippling flesh burst forth from the space between elasticated hipster jeans and children's-sized short t-shirts; rolls of belly and blobs of overspilling back-cleavage, which at least ensured...2007, Christopher Nosnibor, Bad Houses, →ISBN, page 21

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