household goods
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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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(Definition ofhouseholdfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At a time when computers were available but not yet a commonhouseholdgood, public access to computers emerged as a solution.
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In longer periods of poverty past savings are depleted, household goods deteriorate and cannot be replaced, and debts accrue and become unsustainable.
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The grandparents may finance the schooling expenses of the grandchildren, or some of the durable household goods for their children.
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Other assets incorporated in the measure included jewellery, various household goods (furniture, bicycle, radios), and livestock.
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Leisure, household goods and services, transport and clothing are the next most costly elements of contact.
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Her dowry (peijia) was not very large: some bed coverlets, bolts of cloth, barrels and household goods.
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This goal was accomplished most expeditiously by the public sale of personal and household goods at auction.
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The most common items taken were ' household goods ', a term probably describing general workaday items.
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The non-resident parent's household goods and services budget was constructed from the single male's budget by adding items for visiting children.
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Virtually every economic item in the country became subject to speculation : food, cars, household goods, primary products, industrial inputs, land, and real estate.
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While we cannot locate individuals into particular properties, we can look for evidence of a consumer revolution via trends in the ownership of household goods.
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A shared household reduces costs due to "public household goods," and at least to some extent income is likely to be shared between the members of the household.
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The surviving documentation reveals that their actions were usually the same, namely to find buildings and then to notify the government, and to supply food, clothing and household goods.
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In many north-eastern cities assistance was provided by the emigration secretariats, parishes and municipalities, which provided household goods, subsidised food, kitchens, night shelters and other accommodation.
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Productivity growth in this sector and the broadly based rise in income is likely to be spent by small farmers on relatively simple consumer or household goods.
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Aside from organic dried foods, the site sells products for home and garden, crafting items, clothing, quilts, bedding, and other household goods.
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The household goods business started in 1954 with the production of toothpaste products.
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The new chain offered consumer electronics, furniture and other household goods.
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It offers 38000 m2 of retail space and in 2011 had 181 vendors selling artwork, toys, household goods, foodstuffs and other items.
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