entire family

collocation in English

meanings of entireand family

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entire
adjective[before noun]
uk /ɪnˈtaɪər/ us /ɪnˈtaɪr/
whole or complete, with ...
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family
noun
uk /ˈfæm.əl.i/ us /ˈfæm.əl.i/
a group of people who are related to each other, such as a mother, a father, and ...
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Examples of entire family

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Our entirefamily was slowly, but surely, becoming a bilingual team.
Interactions involve either the entirefamily or individuals as they are influenced by and affect the family.
The rectangular house typically had several rooms, accommodated an entirefamily, tended to be extended over time, and was found in fully sedentary communities.
It made more financial sense to pay a small dole to one pauper than to house their entirefamily in-doors.
They do not involve the entirefamily but only the youngster.
In this sense the divorce was treated as a misfortune that befell the entirefamily, and they had to be close to get through it.
The chief, enraged by their reappearance, then expelled the entirefamily.
The percentage of family-centred statements in our research was 22%, which included promotional statements on parents, siblings and the entirefamily.
He, however, hastens to correct the 'general impression' that his entirefamily are communists.
If their children were too young to work, the average share of married women's earnings equalled about 20 per cent of the entirefamily income.
Clinically, results from the present study highlight the importance of early intervention for behavior problems involving the child's entirefamily.
The advent of a disability grant, as was clearly the case for the respondent quoted above, can be a major life-line for the entirefamily.
Effective programs aimed at working with the entirefamily may be needed to prevent the development of these disorders.
All of these various sources of information about a given branch of family would eventually become one chapter in the study of the entirefamily.
From a systemic point of view, the burden of illness is not only experienced by the patient, but by the entirefamily system.
These stressors are felt by the entirefamily unit and by their nurses, doctors, and other professional caregivers.
Whilst landownership is measured in 1736, all the other variables refer to the entirefamily cycle.
For each difference, the family was instructed to take 10 min to defend their individual positions and then attempt to reach a consensus that represented the entirefamily.
We certainly feel that over this period of time and through these professional and personal contacts we came to know the entirefamily very well indeed.
From a family systems perspective, it is important to look at patterns of interaction within the entirefamily to understand the mental health of each member individually.
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