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households

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for households.

Editorial note

As Gen Y goes through their 30s, forms households and has children they will value these places more.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of households gathered in one view.

noun

Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.

noun

Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.

noun

Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for households.

noun

Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.

noun

Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.

noun

Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

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As Gen Y goes through their 30s, forms households and has children they will value these places more.

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Watch any number carefully enough and you'll tend to optimize it, and most households have significant room to.

3

Wonder what the likelihood of getting 100 households to put up say $3-5K in installation costs would be?

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That still gives you a ~10km buffer region of potentially reachable households around your main fibre-atop-hydro stretch.

5

Opower’s software has been deployed to more than 95 utility partners around the world and reaches more than 50 million households and businesses.

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I wonder how much of this is related to the increase of two-income households coupled with overall wage stagnation?

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And, in larger households typically there's nowadays an expectation of two income earners.

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Their households have taken on vast amounts of debt in the last decade.

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The foreign funds that started it all will sell, with huge profits, and the Indian households will be left to deal with the mess.

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In 1950 there were an awful lot of households with one adult working a paid job and one adult handling most of the household work.

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I like that they also allow you to look at other households power consumption data.

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This normally came in the form of a rebate for households that installed panels and accounted for about a third of all investment by the corporation.

Quote examples

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> "That's left Dutch households with a bigger debt burden than anyone else in the euro zone." Sure, this is a problem.

2

Although if you were only serving a hundred households you could plausibly serve them all from a single large fibre cable along the main stretch by "pulling off" a couple of fibres into a smaller cable per household.

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For example, "90% of cable subscribers subscribe to cable for the sports channels" and "there are 100million cable subscribers, so therefore the market for sports channels is 90 million households" and "the average household is 3 people" therefore "advertising reach is potentially 270 million pairs of eyes".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use households in a sentence?

As Gen Y goes through their 30s, forms households and has children they will value these places more.

What does households mean?

Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.

What part of speech is households?

households is commonly used as noun.