outside the home vs outside of the home

Both 'outside the home' and 'outside of the home' are correct and commonly used. They have the same meaning and can be used interchangeably.

Last updated: March 31, 2024

outside the home

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to refer to the area or space that is not inside the home.

Examples:

I like to spend time outside the home.
She enjoys gardening outside the home.

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He hates watching woman working outside the home.
But I don't mind telling you, Victor, ever since she started working outside the home, we've been ships in the night.
You can't work outside the home.
We cannot have children, hold onto a job outside the home, mind elderly parents and participate in wider society.
And do you work outside the home, Ms. Leblanc?
I'm the first woman in both sides of my family to ever work outside the home and ever receive a higher education.
This is even more important in the case of allergens where there is evidence that the majority of anaphylactic shocks happen when people eat outside the home.
One of the most unfortunate features of contemporary society is that women are being forced to work outside the home for financial reasons, because it is impossible to bring up a family on a single wage.
They expect their partners, their spouses, their wives, to work outside the home and be just as committed to their careers as they are.
While having the same right as men to a professional career, women cannot, however, do the same work as men outside the home and triple the amount within the home.
Special reference is made to the role of women in rural society and the need to provide the social conditions necessary to support women who work outside the home and those women engaged in agriculture and other rural enterprises.
I mean, tell me, Sally, if you'd been elected president, would you have stopped Daniel Douglas, rest his soul, from working outside the home?
With the same rights to a career as men, women must not be forced to do the same work as men outside the home and three times as much in the home.
Outside the home, women should avoid any contact with strange men and should not be together with men in closed rooms.
Recurring activities outside the home?
But I see myself making an impact outside the home.
It would offer an alternative which hundreds of thousands of people in Europe would certainly be delighted to take advantage of, and it would for the first time offer people a genuine choice between working at or outside the home.
They state that the increase in women's financial independence through job opportunities outside the home means that there is a move from the patriarchal marriage - with the male as earner and the women as dependent - towards marriage as a partnership.
Parents spend over 12 hours outside the home, leaving the children unattended and at the mercy of all manner of negative influences, leading to academic failure, children leaving school early, indolence, drugs and exclusion.
Detailed clinical observations should be made outside the home cage in a standard arena.

Alternatives:

outside of the home
outside one's home
outside the house
outside one's house
outside the residence

outside of the home

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to refer to the area or space that is not inside of the home.