joint household
collocation in Englishmeaningsofjointandhousehold
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joint
adjective
uk/dʒɔɪnt/us/dʒɔɪnt/
belonging to or shared between two or ...
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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 ofjointandhouseholdfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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She also discovered that the final distribution of inheritance and the breakup of thejointhouseholdappear to have been closely connected.
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Should the departure of those married brothers be interpreted as a ' splitting ' (or a ' fission ') of the household in line with the rules ofjointhouseholdformation?
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She found that, despite the interdependence of thejointhousehold, the older people placed a high value on continued physical independence and reciprocal contribution to the running of the household.
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Under the rating system both members of ajointhouseholdwould have been responsible for the bills.
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What they cannot do is to take advantage of the fact that they are married and have ajointhousehold.
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Our real object is that if you have ajointhousehold, that household shall be taxed on the whole income.
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Entitlement will be based on one person working over 16 hours, and onjointhouseholdincome.
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There were three basic reasons why these joint households came into existence.
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But at the same time, such joint households were usually not just exceptions.
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Many of these were in joint households with more than one pensioner.
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