home-improvement

adjective

: being or related to a project to make one's house better, bigger, more modern, etc.

long past time for some home-improvements

Examples of home-improvement in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

The show features hands-on demonstrations, hundreds of home-improvement products and services exhibitors, plant sales and face-to-face consultations with experts and shopping. —

Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025 According to data gathered by Today's Homeowner, an outlet offering home-improvement advice, 11 movies account for the favorites across all 50 states, with one movie alone being the top choice for almost half of the country. —

Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024 Lowe’s, the home-improvement chain, aims to hire some 2,000 software engineers for an unspecified location, charging them with developing custom software for the company, which now uses off-the-shelf tools. —

IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2018 Bernard Marcus, the former pharmacist who became a billionaire by co-founding Home Depot Inc., the world’s largest home-improvement retailer, has died. —

Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for home-improvement

Cite this Entry

Style

“Home-improvement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home-improvement. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

Copy Citation