households
- 1Plural of household.
The survey collected income data from thousands of households across the region.
Rising energy costs have squeezed the budgets of many low-income households.
Note
A regular plural, formed with a simple -s, that counts the noun only. Surveys and statistics lean on it because a household is a recognized unit of people living together, so figures are reported per household rather than per person. The adjective never takes the ending: it stays household goods and household chores, even when many homes are meant, never households goods.
households is a form of household
household, noun: All the people who live together in one house, counted as a single group: including family members and any servants or attendants. Full entry
- Forms
- householdhouseholds plural
- Spelling
- household → households: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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