household meaning

Noun: household  'haws`hówld

1. A social unit living together
   "It was a good Christian household"
   - family, house, home, ménage

Derived forms: households

See also: householder

Type of: social unit, unit

Encyclopedia: Household

[Architecture]

All persons, including family members and any unrelated persons, who occupy a dwelling unit.

[Business]
AmE / noun, adjective

■ noun [C]

all the people living together in a single house or flat/apartment, considered as a unit:

This report is based on a survey of around 5 000 households.

How much does the average household spend on food each week?

❖ high-income/low-income/middle-income/single-earner households

◆ rural/urban households

■ adjective [only before noun]

1

connected with looking after a house or flat/apartment and the people living in it:

There has been a sharp increase in household debt.

2

designed for use in the home:

Sales of durable household goods, such as televisions and washing machines, were strong.

⇨ HOUSEWARES

[Economics]
A group of people living together in shared accommodation and with common domestic expenses. A household usually but not always contains people who are related or cohabiting. Whereas the individual is the recipient of incomes, the household is the unit through which a lot of consumption expenditure is decided. The General Household Survey is a source of information on the composition of household expenditure in the UK.

[Medicine]
Size and composition of the family.

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1. the entire household attended the departed one.
2. there is a greater density of household goods.
3. education was mainly a household matter.
4. they divided between them the household chores.
5. stoves, irons, etc. are household appliances ..