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单词 household
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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. 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
 
 
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