a household name

household | Business English

household
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈhaʊshəʊld/us
a group of people, often a family, who live together in a house or flat:
There are now on average 2.5 people per household in the state.
a high-income/low-income/middle-income household
I sometimes wonder how my wife and I manage as a single-income household.
High-technology products are hard to sell to households where the head of the household is over 60 years of age.
household
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈhaʊshəʊld/us
relating to a house or flat and the people who live there:
Public housing tenants are required to pay 30 per cent of their household income for rent.
It's no surprise that household debt is rising.
household bills/expenditure/spendingThe average annual household expenditure for food was $2,030.
used to describe something that is used in the home:
a household appliance/item/product
household consumption/useOver the last two decades, household water consumption per head in London has increased by 22%.

Examples of household

household
Disaggregation of household results by sources of income and expenditure patterns permits a fairly detailed analysis of likely changes in poverty.
This article therefore identifies the need for further research, qualitative and quantitative, on the relationship between women's employment patterns and the dynamics of household formation.
Thus, it is possible that the individuals discussed in this article formed single-person households for the purposes of taxation, but physically lived with other people.
Another is that competition, even if successful in reducing tariffs, will marginally affect the households bills.
Having only one parent might have meant a household necessity of replacing the loss/absence of one parent.
Retirement income is reported only at the household level.
Men, women and children in vulnerable livelihood systems negotiate different activity roles and access patterns to household capital.
The article explores the roles of household compositional factors and socio-economic status on widowhood and remarriage.
Men and women had different spheres of power in the household economy, which were determined by the changing roles they played in production.%!
It should be stressed that the labour force was structured around households and not around individual labourers.
In a good theoretical formulation, households are just a large sector of the economy.
Just as important as the need for a sufficient income was the acquisition of the skills required to run a household.
Men sought to endow each son with sufficient land to establish a separate household.
In these contexts, equitable marital relations are perceived as those in which the wife performs most of the household tasks.
It should be noted, however, that a biased picture may have been produced by the selection of household tasks included in the survey.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withhousehold

household

These are words often used in combination with household.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.

average household
The ratio of household income to poverty level was almost four (that is, the averagehousehold earned four times the federal poverty level).
common household
On the payment card, amounts could be compared to different commonhousehold consumer items of the same value.
farming household
The drawback though is that farmers have to purchase seeds every season, which can be a constraint for farminghousehold with limited cash.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
See all collocations with household