I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a domestic/household pet
▪ Cats and other domestic pets give their owners a lot of pleasure.
a household chore (=a chore in the home)
▪ household chores such as washing and ironing clothes
a household item
▪ The shop stocks a wide variety of household items.
domestic/household etc appliance
▪ There’s plenty of space for all the usual kitchen appliances.
domestic/household fuel (=used in a house)
▪ There has been a sharp rise in domestic fuel costs.
family/household income
▪ She works in a shop to supplement the family income.
household consumption (=use in the home)
▪ The government is encouraging us to reduce our household consumption of water.
household expenditure (=the amount of money the people in a house spend on food, heating etc)
▪ Sally cut her household expenditure and tried to save every penny she could.
household expenses (=money spent looking after a house and the people in it)
▪ Unfortunately, household expenses don’t go away just because you’re in hospital or out of work.
household goods
▪ Household goods are downstairs in the basement.
household products
▪ Do you know what chemicals are in household products such as washing powder and paint?
household rubbish
▪ household rubbish
household/domestic duties (=jobs you have to do around the house)
▪ My husband and I share most of the household duties.
household/domestic refuse
household/domestic waste
▪ Newspapers and magazines make up 10% of household waste.
the family/household budget
▪ Often the husband and wife contribute equally to the family budget.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ Only luxury items beyond the reach of the average household remained on open sale.
▪ Currently, the average household has access to dozens of channels.
▪ It is accessible because it is affordable for those with average and reliable household incomes.
▪ In the average urban white household, parents like to quiz their children about this and that.
▪ The new bills will save an average household £50 a year, but today's decision has shocked county officials.
▪ There has been both an increase in the total number of households and a decrease in the average household size.
▪ The city limits encompassed 91 square miles, and the water bill for the average household was $ 8.
poor
▪ In particular, benefits boost the very low original income of the poorest 20% of households.
▪ If there were only one, that person could claim a discount, as could poorer households.
▪ Many of the poorest households are headed by women farmers who do not have cattle, an important source of wealth.
▪ She believes that any benefit to the environment will be at the expense of poorer households.
▪ In the small Dorset town of Corfe Castle in 1795 the earnings of 129 females in poor households were listed.
▪ In the short run this could mean a property tax with substantial rebates for poor households.
▪ As households moved into the new stock, better pre-1914 dwellings became available for rent by poorer households.
private
▪ The remainder live in private households.
▪ The balance in this country between old people in private households and those in residential care is not sacred or immutable.
▪ For example, there were 1,186,000 adults in private households classified in severity category 1 compared with 102,000 in category 10.
▪ Second, the pattern of disability differs between institutions and private households.
▪ These surveys covered adults in private households, adults in institutions, children in private households and children in institutions.
royal
▪ On a number of occasions I found members of the royal household resting.
▪ Their loss was not reported to police or the royal household - and work carried on as if nothing had happened.
▪ The anti-Roman faction in the royal household seized power and totally upset the careful arrangements made and fostered by Rome.
▪ But a senior member of the royal household told the Mirror that any inaccuracies in the diagrams were tiny.
▪ Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household.
▪ He could afford this, for the royal household had brazenly looked after its own.
▪ Officers and marshals of the royal household were shouting orders.
■ NOUN
appliance
▪ But the campaigners found only four fridges which were on the list of ozone-friendly household appliances.
▪ This is ordinarily the case with automobiles and most major household appliances.
▪ This restricts cover for contents to furniture, furnishings and household appliances.
▪ Most modern household appliances, such as washing machines and dishwashers are already fitted with non-return devices.
▪ Manufacturers of equipment for telecommunications, defence electronics and household appliances have merged or entered joint ventures to ensure their continued competitiveness.
▪ The list targeted exports worth US$3,900 million, including shoes, jewellery, silk clothing, foods, and household appliances.
▪ More than 90 percent of them said they would support new legislation to ensure higher energy-efficiency standards in household appliances.
chore
▪ Almost all household chores and the raising of children is left up to the wife.
▪ It is a day for household chores, for cleaning and scrubbing, or to catch up with their religious studies.
▪ It made a welcome change from household chores and got her into contact with customers which provided a little gossip.
▪ Juggling work and household chores, I felt ennui seeping into all phases of my life.
▪ When household chores get left, you feel guilty you haven't done them because you consider it's your job.
▪ What should parents do to help their children complete household chores?
▪ You typed the articles, relieved me of the household chores and fed me royally.
▪ Consider a nine-year-old who has never been able to complete household chores consistently.
goods
▪ Second - the day-to-day expenditure such as food, drink, household goods, newspapers, petrol or bus fares.
▪ Best reductions in household goods, bedding, dinner services.
▪ Families on supplementary benefit, now income support, are likely to borrow to buy items of clothing or durable household goods.
▪ The insurance cost of household goods in transit or in storage, as appropriate, is also included in most policies.
▪ For example, more people now have key household goods and the benefit of home ownership - as the charts show.
▪ Or take household goods - such as washing machines, televisions, deep freezers, microwaves etc.
▪ Another area which may cause problems is that of insurance of household goods.
▪ Door-to-door sales methods are used for a variety of products, from vacuum cleaners and household goods to cosmetics or double glazing.
head
▪ But here the presumption is that it is the wife rather than the husband who is the household head.
▪ For example in 1983, only 30% of unemployed men had working wives, compared with 58% of employed household heads.
▪ Within families filial piety was the keystone of morality and it led logically to an absolute obedience to the household head.
▪ Zuwaya said that property was held in common, with rights of disposal and use vested in the household head.
▪ But in general economic goods were at the disposal of the household head.
income
▪ It will want to know what your household income is and what you do, but the benefits speak for themselves.
▪ They were also more likely to have had more than a high school education and tended to have a higher household income.
▪ The first set of strategies seeks to meet health needs and make ends meet within household income.
▪ Median white household income is $ 52, 829, while black household income is $ 60, 450.
item
▪ It will automatically calculate, for example, what proportion of your income goes on things like the car and household items.
▪ It went from being a new invention to a regular household item with remarkable speed.
▪ Mirrors were still very dubious household items.
▪ Water was still flowing across the island, carrying along a matted raft of vegetation and srnall household items.
▪ As well as sweaters you can make toys, baby clothes, cushion covers and all sorts of craft and household items.
▪ Scientists tested 131 products, including toys, video cables, phone cords, place mats and other household items.
▪ Prepare a small box or bag containing ordinary household items for each of the expected guests.
▪ Some shoppers look for furniture, toys, books and household items as well.
name
▪ Nintendo, a household name, is accused of fixing the prices of its home-video games.
▪ But despite being a household name, pools is the most secretive part of Littlewoods' business.
▪ Norris is not a household name.
▪ Korda may have been touted as a gifted player, but he was hardly a household name.
▪ Billy Dale is not going to become a household name.
▪ They're household names in the States where they've sold well over a million copies of their album Sooner Or Later.
▪ Plus, it's not as if the Barn Burners, Helm's current band, is a household name.
product
▪ Watch out for household products being used up too fast or appearing in places where they are not usually kept.
▪ Both compounds once were widely used in household products such as glass cleaners, paints and paint thinners.
▪ Often, as in household products or industrial chemicals, hot competition among affiliates of big multinationals ensures both growth and cost-competitiveness.
▪ A new machine or household product existed first as idea, then perhaps as rude sketch.
▪ With more emphasis on household products, does this mean that Marks and Spencer is turning itself into a supermarket?
▪ Water purification has become a major category of consumer interest, and new household products address that concern.
▪ Certainly, for household products, it makes sense to put them in a household setting.
▪ There were some pockets of profit-taking in the rally, particularly diversified health care, household products and international oil stocks.
rubbish
▪ Finding things to make out of unwanted household rubbish will always be technically difficult.
▪ Furthermore, mixing up used disposables with the rest of the household rubbish makes it difficult to recycle them afterwards.
▪ This is particularly true of household rubbish.
waste
▪ This year's investment amounting to £10 million, will focus on the potential of sorting household waste.
▪ In the case of household waste, the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting.
▪ The plant will generate up to 38 million megawatts a year from burning 400,000 tonnes of household waste.
▪ Organic household waste can be composted to make garden fertilizer.
▪ Dangerous items such as these should never have found their way into household waste.
▪ At present, 90 percent of all household waste is disposed of by burial in landfill sites.
▪ It is illegal to put large quantities of animal faeces in household waste for collection, so that idea is ruled out.
word
▪ Of course, her name was a household word.
▪ I won't tell you who she is because the name is a household word.
▪ Now Perky as much an evangelist as a merchandiser, proposed to make Shredded Wheat a household word.
▪ With dizzying speed, the tiny label almost single-handedly ignited the hip-hop revolution that made rap a household word.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a two-income household
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If there were only one, that person could claim a discount, as could poorer households.
▪ Seb found Boz tying some of the bulkier items of his household to the rear of his caravan.
▪ The Thomas household had five sons by the time Edward was ten years old.
II.adjectiveEXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ household appliances
▪ household cleaning products