A parent whose children have grown up and left home.
〈非正式，主北美〉厮守“空巢”者（因子女已长大离家而被撇下的老人）
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As baby boomers become empty nesters, freed of paying for their kids' tuition, room, and board both at home and away, they increasingly are buying a second home rather than merely downsizing the one they occupy.
The city's natural beauty draws big money from empty nesters, retired people and cultural tourists.
Built primarily for empty nesters and nontraditional families, these flexi-houses feature walls that can be removed to change a room's shape.
Mostly I'm looking forward to being just 40 something when I'm an empty nester.
Their most important customers are the empty nesters.
Sherry would soon become an empty nester, as their two daughters rapidly approached college age.
Today's media is rife with speculation about the impact of baby boomers becoming empty nesters and approaching retirement.
These appeal to two sets of people: young professionals with no children attracted to the bright lights of the city and empty nesters in their 50s who are downsizing.
But older empty nesters today are much more likely to own a second home some distance from their primary residence.
One thing that empty nesters, second home owners and two-earner households have in common is that they eat out more often and spend more on food away from home.
Then there are folks like these two, who in demographic parlance are baby boomers turned empty nesters.
‘They're either high-end empty nesters or young professionals with no kids,’ he said.
Definition of empty nester in US English:
empty nester
noun
North American informal
A parent whose children have grown up and left home.
〈非正式，主北美〉厮守“空巢”者（因子女已长大离家而被撇下的老人）
Example sentencesExamples
Mostly I'm looking forward to being just 40 something when I'm an empty nester.
But older empty nesters today are much more likely to own a second home some distance from their primary residence.
As baby boomers become empty nesters, freed of paying for their kids' tuition, room, and board both at home and away, they increasingly are buying a second home rather than merely downsizing the one they occupy.
Then there are folks like these two, who in demographic parlance are baby boomers turned empty nesters.
‘They're either high-end empty nesters or young professionals with no kids,’ he said.
These appeal to two sets of people: young professionals with no children attracted to the bright lights of the city and empty nesters in their 50s who are downsizing.
One thing that empty nesters, second home owners and two-earner households have in common is that they eat out more often and spend more on food away from home.
Built primarily for empty nesters and nontraditional families, these flexi-houses feature walls that can be removed to change a room's shape.
The city's natural beauty draws big money from empty nesters, retired people and cultural tourists.
Today's media is rife with speculation about the impact of baby boomers becoming empty nesters and approaching retirement.
Sherry would soon become an empty nester, as their two daughters rapidly approached college age.
Their most important customers are the empty nesters.