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Household

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group of one or more people living in the same dwelling and sharing meals or living accommodation; may consist of a single family or other grouping of people

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The other half, therefore, or at least the greater part of them, can be employed in providing other things, or in satisfying the other wants and fancies of mankind. Clothing and lodging, household furniture, and what is called equipage, are the principal objects of the greater part of those wants and fancies. The rich man consumes no more food than his poor neighbour. In quality it may be very different, and to…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
States what Household is; names Household several times.
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Several generations of the same family live together in such a house. In India, the household community with collective agriculture is already mentioned by Nearchus at the time of Alexander the Great, and it exists to this day in the same region, in the Punjab and the whole Northwest of…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Names Household twice.
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Sec. 5. THE KINSHIP OR HOUSEHOLD GROUP WAS A RELIGIOUS UNIT The kinship or household group determined largely both the ideas and the cultus of primitive religion; conversely religion gave completeness, value, and sacredness to the group life. Kinship with unseen powers or persons was the fundamental religious idea. The kinship group as a religious body _simply extended the kin to include invisible as well as visible…
John Dewey, Ethics
Names Household twice; opens on Household.
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