Definition of household in English:
household
noun ˈhaʊshəʊldˈhaʊsˌ(h)oʊld
1A house and its occupants regarded as a unit.
the whole household was asleep
as modifier household bills
Example sentencesExamples
- Of course this is not true - you are only required to have a license if you use a television in your household.
- The new figures showed 95 per cent of urban households now have access to the high speed access.
- When one of us is labouring over a difficult job it affects the whole household.
- Twenty one percent of households in our country failed to find enough to eat in 1999.
- The council budgeted for three per cent of households to use black bags instead of wheeled bins.
- Fifty percent of all households rely on the Local Authority for their housing needs.
- The research also found that six out of ten households in Britain have PCs and a quarter of these have more than one machine.
- All of these can be measured at the unit of the individual, or the whole household.
- A two week cycle is not adequate for family households and will lead to the town becoming a tip.
- By Sunday night our eight page election newspaper had been delivered to tens of thousands of households.
- Since being launched in July, the pilot scheme has been taken up by 85 per cent of households.
- Just eight per cent of households throwing away full card numbers had made attempts to destroy them.
- Only 22 per cent of working households are earning enough to afford a home at that price.
- Assume that each of those households was a nuclear family: a father, a mother and two children.
- You add up all the household incomes and you divide in by the number of households.
- Seventy per cent of households will be better off or unaffected by our plans.
- In some Parkhead households there are families where three generations have grown up without knowing work.
- Over 40 per cent of households were dissatisfied with how complaints were handled.
- It is now an extended and adapted house for occupation by eleven households.
- The lack of availability is cited by less than ten per cent of non-wired households.
Synonyms
family, house, family circle, ménage, clan, tribe
informal brood
- 1.1usually in titles The establishment and affairs of a royal household.
Controller of the Household
Example sentencesExamples
- He had determined to rule England from his court and household, and not through the nobility.
- In the fifth and final carriage were Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, the Princess Royal with her son, Peter Phillips, 24, and Vice Admiral Tom Blackburn, Master of the Royal Household.
- It's no longer just a separate household but a whole separate, rival royal court.
- He was a member of Wolsey's household but avoided going down with his master.
- On that date, Charles appointed his first Master of the Household, one of the top royal jobs which is normally reserved for the monarch's court.
- I'm writing this in mid-April; in two weeks' time I am bidden by the Master of the Household to a gathering at Windsor Castle.
- The names of guests had only been given to police by the Prince of Wales' household on the day of the event.
Definition of household in US English:
household
nounˈhousˌ(h)ōldˈhaʊsˌ(h)oʊld
A house and its occupants regarded as a unit.
the whole household was asleep
as modifier household appliances
ten percent of households had a television
Example sentencesExamples
- The new figures showed 95 per cent of urban households now have access to the high speed access.
- Twenty one percent of households in our country failed to find enough to eat in 1999.
- Of course this is not true - you are only required to have a license if you use a television in your household.
- Since being launched in July, the pilot scheme has been taken up by 85 per cent of households.
- All of these can be measured at the unit of the individual, or the whole household.
- You add up all the household incomes and you divide in by the number of households.
- Over 40 per cent of households were dissatisfied with how complaints were handled.
- The lack of availability is cited by less than ten per cent of non-wired households.
- Assume that each of those households was a nuclear family: a father, a mother and two children.
- Seventy per cent of households will be better off or unaffected by our plans.
- Just eight per cent of households throwing away full card numbers had made attempts to destroy them.
- Only 22 per cent of working households are earning enough to afford a home at that price.
- A two week cycle is not adequate for family households and will lead to the town becoming a tip.
- It is now an extended and adapted house for occupation by eleven households.
- Fifty percent of all households rely on the Local Authority for their housing needs.
- In some Parkhead households there are families where three generations have grown up without knowing work.
- The council budgeted for three per cent of households to use black bags instead of wheeled bins.
- The research also found that six out of ten households in Britain have PCs and a quarter of these have more than one machine.
- By Sunday night our eight page election newspaper had been delivered to tens of thousands of households.
- When one of us is labouring over a difficult job it affects the whole household.
Synonyms
family, house, family circle, ménage, clan, tribe