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household

英 ['haʊshəʊld] 美['haʊshold]

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adj. 家庭的；日常的；王室的
n. 家庭；一家人
n. (Household)人名；(英)豪斯霍尔德

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In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.

In post-war Japan, the economy wasn’t doing so great, so you couldn’t get everyday-use items like household cleaners, says Lisa Katayama, author of Urawaza, a book named after the Japanese term for clever lifestyle tips and tricks, So people looked for ways to do with what they had.

According to the FBI, crimes like these accounted for roughly twothirds of all household burglaries in the US in 2013.

Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night.

Dr.Ben Carson grew up in a poor single-parent household in Detroit.

It is reported that 49 million Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal What's most surprising is that 36% of them live in households where at least one adult is working.

Her household bills piled up, along with the dishes and dirty laundry, but it took near-constant complaints from her four daughters before she realized she had a problem.

With the time spent eating, sleeping and taking care of household duties.

According to the FBI, crimes like these accounted for roughly two-thirds of all household burglaries in the US in 2013.

In 2014, for the first time in more than 1 years, adults aged 18 to were slightly more likely to be living in their parents' home than they were to be living with a spouse or partner in their own household.

In 2014, more young women 16% than young men 13% were heading up a household without a spouse or partner.

This type of arrangement peaked around 1960, when 62% of the nations 18- to 34-year-olds were living with a spouse or partner in their own household, and only one-in-five were living with their parents.

To do this, the team used data from the British Household Panel Survey compiled by the University of Essex.

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

In American Woman's Home, published in 1869, the Beecher sisters recommended a scientific approach to household management, designed to enhance the efficiency of a woman's work and promote order.

Her 1919 work, Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home, was based on detailed observation of a housewife's daily routine.

The household survey has a larger problem.

The household survey can be faulty in that some people won't provide truthful information

From December 1928 to December 1929, total household wealth declined only 3%.

By contrast, the loss in household wealth between December 2007 and December 2008 was 17%

For the moment, American households actually are doing so.

By running constant deficits, it is dis-saving, even as households save more

To help with the household chores.

In their thirst for evidence on this issue, commentators seized on the recent report by the Census Bureau, which found that average household income rose by 5.2% in 2015.

Maria Sibylla Merian, like many European women of the 17th century, stayed busy managing a household and rearing children.

Relative poverty is generally considered to be a household income level which is below a given proportion of average family income.

At the beginning, when friends offered to take her through her paces, I declined because I knew they had their own households to deal with.

How are social robots different from household robots?

The average number of electronic devices rose from 4 per household in 1992 to 13 in 2007.

The robot doesn't just deliver general answers to questions; it responds based on what it learns about each individual in the household.

When serious illness visits your household, it's not just your daily routine and your assumptions about the future that are no longer familiar.

While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools.

With food our biggest weekly household expenses, Susanna and Matt spend time with a different family each week.

Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out.

What the study doesn't measure is whether people are still doing work when they're at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office.