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household Definition

house·hold (ho̵us′hōld′)

noun

  1. the person or persons who live in one house, apartment, etc.; variously, one person or a group, esp. a family
  2. the home and its affairs

Etymology: ME houshold: see house & hold,

adjective

  1. of a household or home; domestic
    1. common; ordinary
    2. known to almost everyone; very familiar the incident made him a household name overnight

household Synonyms

household

n.

family unit, house, domestic establishment; see family 1, home.

household Usage Examples

Preposition: with

income: Patients from households with incomes of £ 10,000 and above would wait an additional 6.4 months in the same circumstances.

Preposition: in

boro: Annual Canvass The Electoral Register is updated each year from the information we receive from a canvass of all the households in the boro.

Adjective modifier

  • low-income: They are also more likely than single people to live in low-income households.
  • workless: Children are more likely than adults to live in poverty and more than 2.5 million live in workless households.
  • homeless: The GLA is also working toward getting minimum standards in temporary accommodation for homeless households extended to asylum seekers.
  • vulnerable: The team also administers the private sector assistance policies to other vulnerable households in need.
  • lone: However, nearly half of lone parent households still have no-one in work, compared to only 7 per cent of couples with children.
  • royal: Was He received on a silken pillow and adored by a royal household?

Modifies a noun

  • waste: They also compost organic household waste for use in the garden.
  • chore: All this was in addition to the household chores.
  • income: For certain groups, a maximum household income of £ 60,000 will apply.
  • appliance: Find out why using metric can help you in buying household appliances.
  • rubbish: Household rubbish which cannot be recycled in your black bin.
  • recycling: Please visit the county council operated household waste recycling centers.

Noun used with modifier

  • pensioner: In Scotland, 58 % of pensioner households live in fuel poverty.
  • single-person: Young, single-person households, for example, will make different decisions from older households with children.
  • one-person: On the other hand, affluent one-person households would like a credit facility.
  • fuel-poor: Social housing contains a higher proportion of fuel-poor households than any other tenure.
  • high-income: Segregation and integration depend particularly on where young, high-income households the most mobile group choose to move to.
  • peasant: This loss of cultivated area struck at the livelihoods of over 113,000 peasant households.