household budget

collocation in English

meaningsofhouseholdandthe Budget

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household
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈhaʊs.həʊld/us
/ˈhaʊs.hoʊld/
a group of people, often a family, who ...
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budget
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbʌdʒ.ɪt/us
/ˈbʌdʒ.ɪt/
in the UK, the official statement that the government makes about how much it will collect in taxes and spend on public services in ...
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(Definition ofhouseholdandbudgetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The application ofhouseholdbudgetsurveys was extended to other social categories in the population, in particular to workers and employees.
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The main differences between the various social groups concern the average age by which children started contributing to thehouseholdbudget.
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The loss of income can have dramatic effects on thehouseholdbudgetand may put household members' social position at risk.
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Thehouseholdbudgetconsists of monetary and non-monetary transactions made by all adult persons of the household.
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At this point, labor demand and labor supply can be computed by combining thehouseholdbudgetconstraint (5) with the aggregation and government budget balance conditions.
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For poorer households these costs are a bigger share of thehouseholdbudgetso the rises hit even harder.
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On behalf of the consumer, where thehouseholdbudgetwould be affected by any marked rise in the price of milk, we endorse this hope.
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It is doubtful whether the railwaymen are much better off as regards thehouseholdbudgetthan they were before.
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What is more, all this has come at a time when the percentage of thehouseholdbudgetspent on food has been declining.
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The most important item in thehouseholdbudgetis obviously food, amounting to nearly one-third of total expenditure.
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The price of food is a significant item in everyhouseholdbudgetand is important to women.
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Where the employer does not make provision for the change, the effect upon thehouseholdbudgetcan be drastic.
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He may judge that as the children are not his he should not have to contribute to thehouseholdbudgetfor their support.
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All categories of food are included in thehouseholdbudgetfor the purposes of compiling the retail prices index.
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Those are not frivolous, trivial or extravagant items, by any stretch of the imagination; they are important items in a normalhouseholdbudget.
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I draw a parallel with thehouseholdbudgetof a mum who has blued £50 on a food processor.
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The contribution of part-time workers is vital to thehouseholdbudgetand to the whole economy.
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It is bound to mean, if their circumstances do not change in the meantime, a readjustment of theirhouseholdbudget.
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These savings are on key items in thehouseholdbudgetand are equivalent to more than 5p in the pound, or in old money ls.
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Good trade means improvement for the working man—whom we are considering—and hishouseholdbudget.
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