in-house meaning

Adverb: in-house

1. Done within a business rather than contracted out
   "translations to be done are distributed amongst the in-house translators"

Encyclopedia: In-house

[Business]
adjective [only before noun]

existing or happening within a company or an organization:

an in-house magazine

in-house lawyers/design teams

in-company training

in-house adverb:

The software was developed in-house.

⇨ OUT-OF-HOUSE

[Finance]
In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. Although a listed trade must be taken to the floor of the stock exchange, matching supply with demand within the confines of the firm results in higher commissions for the firm.

• house:    Noun: house & ...
• on the house:    Adjective: on the ...
• house-to-house:    Adjective: house-t ...

Examples

1. here is our in-house television schedule.
2. all original programming for his system was done in-house.
3. when the proof was inescapable, they wanted to keep it in-house.