HOUSEHOLD

Household

A household consists of one or more people who live in the same dwelling and also share at meals or living accommodation, and may consist of a single family or some other grouping of people. A single dwelling will be considered to contain multiple households if meals or living space are not shared. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is important to the fields of economics, inheritance. Household models include the family, varieties of blended families, share housing, group homes, boarding houses, houses in multiple occupation, and a single room occupancy . In feudal times, the royal Household and ...

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household

Noun

  1. Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
  2. A line of ancestry; a race or house.

Adjective

  1. Belonging to the same house and family.
  2. Of anything found in or having its origin in a home.


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