household

household
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noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ average
▪

The average household spends more on housing than on food.

▪ domestic, private, etc.
▪ rural, urban
▪ poor, wealthy
▪ royal
▪

He was a member of the royal household.

▪ middle-class, working-class
▪ high-income, low-income, poor, etc.
▪ family, married-couple, single-parent, single-person, etc.
VERB + HOUSEHOLD
▪ maintain, manage, run
▪ head
▪

households headed by a single parent

▪ set up
▪

Becoming an adult and setting up a household no longer mean the same thing.

HOUSEHOLD + NOUN
▪ appliance, contents (esp. BrE), furniture, goods, item, product
▪

The household contents are covered by a separate insurance policy.

▪ cleaner
▪ bills, budget, debt, expenditure, expenses, income, savings
▪ chore, duties, task
▪ garbage (AmE), rubbish (BrE), trash (AmE), waste
PHRASES
▪ the head of the household
▪

The head of the household is responsible for completing the form.

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adj.
Household is used with these nouns: ↑appliance, ↑article, ↑budget, ↑cat, ↑chemical, ↑chore, ↑cleaner, ↑composition, ↑consumption, ↑dust, ↑duty, ↑expenditure, ↑expense, ↑finance, ↑formation, ↑fuel, ↑furniture, ↑gadget, ↑garbage, ↑goods, ↑help, ↑hint, ↑income, ↑insurance, ↑item, ↑linen, ↑management, ↑member, ↑name, ↑object, ↑pet, ↑plumbing, ↑product, ↑refrigerator, ↑refuse, ↑responsibility, ↑rubbish, ↑saving, ↑sector, ↑servant, ↑shrine, ↑size, ↑structure, ↑survey, ↑task, ↑wares, ↑waste, ↑wealth, ↑word

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