Household
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Marriage : (n.) A household consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. --The Devil's Dictionary |
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A household consists of one or several persons who live in the same dwelling and share meals. It may also consist of a single family or another group of people. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is important to economics and inheritance.
Household models include families, blended families, shared housing, group homes, boarding houses, houses of multiple occupancy (UK), and single room occupancy (US). In feudal societies, the Royal Household and medieval households of the wealthy included servants and other retainers.
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See also
- Dwelling
- Oikos
- List of countries by number of households
- Household economics
- Household final consumption expenditure
- Household income in the United States
- Household production
- Family
- Intra-household bargaining
- Roommate
- Group home
- Hoju – South Korea
- Home
- Homemaker
- Medieval household
- Royal Household
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