Domicile traces to Latin domus, meaning "home," and English speakers have been using it as a word for "home" since at least the 15th century. In the eyes of the law, a domicile can also be a legal residence, the address from which one registers to vote, licenses a car, and pays income tax. Wealthy people may have several homes in which they live at different times of the year, but only one of their homes can be their official domicile for all legal purposes.
Noun You will need to report your change of domicile to your insurance company. Students must establish a domicile in the state to be eligible for reduced tuition. Verb the university domiciles students in a variety of buildings in and around its urban campus
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Noun
Three Arrows, which is being liquidated, was based in Singapore for years and its founders, Kyle Davies and Su Zhu, continued to live and work in the country even after moving the fund’s domicile to the British Virgin Islands in 2021. Elaine Yu, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022 Twitter’s board filed with the Court of Chancery in Delaware, its tax domicile, reads like a forensic takedown of Musk that readily employs his own penchant to tweet to build its case against him. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 13 July 2022 The sticking point, then, is the rupee’s conversion into the currency of a foreign entity’s country of domicile. Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 20 July 2022 And domicile can sometimes seem like an almost mystical concept. Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 6 June 2022 Singapore headquarters was an issue for regulators at the time, but the company has since switched its domicile to the US. Liana Baker, Fortune, 26 May 2022 One concern was Broadcom’s Singapore headquarters, and the company has since switched its domicile to the US. Liana Baker, Fortune, 23 May 2022 One concern was Broadcom’s Singapore headquarters, and the company has since switched its domicile to the US. Liana Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2022 Among the first net zero homes in the nation’s capital, this domicile is designed to meet DOE Energy Star for homes requirements. Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
Verb
By having more funds domiciled in Singapore, the government hopes to not only attract more cash, but also jobs in the legal and accounting sectors.Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020 The current crisis might instead prompt us to ask whether companies domiciled in tax havens have any right to come crying to governments for a handout. Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 1 May 2020 That wasn’t the case five years ago when AbbVie sought to reduce its tax bill by merging with Shire, which was domiciled in Ireland where the corporate rate is 12.5% and intellectual property is taxed at 6.25%. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 June 2019 That levy, collected at the end of December, falls heavily on American giants Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, which have frequently been criticized for sidestepping local taxes by domiciling core operations in lower-tax nations. Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2020 For centuries, a vast range of African art has been domiciled outside the continent. Oluwatosin Adeshokan, Quartz Africa, 7 Mar. 2020 Li, worth some $30 billion as of June, started to reduce his risk in Hong Kong over 30 years ago by re-domiciling his principal holding company in Bermuda well before the U.K. handed its colony back to China in 1999. Geoffrey Smith, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2019 This again indicates that Ford travelled to North Carolina because Williamson was—his attorneys will contend—domiciled there. Michael Mccann, SI.com, 27 Sep. 2019 There is no dispute that Ford is a citizen of Florida and is domiciled there. Michael Mccann, SI.com, 27 Sep. 2019 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun and Verb
Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin domicilium, from domus — see domeentry 1