Work that is done at home, especially school exercises assigned by a teacher.
"homework" is a correct and usable word in written English. You can use it to refer to work that is assigned to students to be done outside of school. For example, "My daughter spends two hours every evening completing her homework.".
"It's about looking at the cost-effectiveness of an intervention [that academy governors must opt to pay for] – a breakfast club, say, which gives some children the only chance they may get to do their homework – which may not at first glance appear to be cost-effective".
I have to get in to do my homework.
After explaining that he had not been able to talk to the press last term because he was too busy with his homework, Tielemans continued: "The two little dips in form that I endured – one last season and then again in the early part of this season – have helped me grow up.
So the Financial Times's splash is headlined Cameron builds on Right to Buy in effort to regain the edge from Miliband and its leading article, unimpressed with Labour's financial pledges, is headlined Miliband's belated vow to do his fiscal homework.
I sang it at his wedding: 'At 5.35 I start to relax, finish my homework, close my Filofax…' I didn't have a Filofax".
Both just for general interest rather than homework.
"If you have three hours of online homework a week and you want to wait and do it all in one night then that is your choice.
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