Family Group
household
house·hold [ hous-hohld, -ohld ]
Definitions related to households:
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A social unit comprised of one or more individuals living together (all of whom need not be related) in the same dwelling, who aggregate and share their incomes.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Domestic unit consisting of persons who live together; also includes the living spaces and possessions belonging to such a unit.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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The group of persons who occupy a single housing unit.NCI Health Level 7 VocabularyU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2018
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