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household
[ hous-hohld, -ohld ]
noun
- the people of a house collectively; a family including its servants.
adjective
- of or relating to a household:
household furniture.
- for use in maintaining a home, especially for use in cooking, cleaning, laundering, repairing, etc., in the home:
a household bleach.
- common or usual; ordinary.
household
/ ˈʊˌəʊ /
noun
- the people living together in one house collectively
- modifier of, relating to, or used in the running of a household; domestic
household management
Word History and Origins
Origin of household1
Example Sentences
He added: "With pressures on the replacement programme growing and with limited engineer availability, especially in rural areas, there's a real risk of prolonged disruption, particularly for vulnerable households."
The household was vegetarian before this was trendy or socially acceptable, and yet not in an uppity way.
Growing up in a Filipino household, food was central to everything.
Trump’s own tariff policies, intended in theory to rebalance global trade to the benefit of U.S. manufacturers and farmers, risk immediate pain to American households and a prolonged economic crisis.
About a third of M&S's clothing and household goods sales in the UK are through its online platforms and were worth some £1.2bn, according to its latest financial results.
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