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I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a curry houseBritish English (= a restaurant that serves curry)
Let’s try that new curry house in town.
a debt/food/housing etc crisis
The failure of the crop this year will create a food crisis.
a fashion house (=a company that produces new and expensive styles of clothes)
fashion houses such as Armani and Hugo Boss
a house fire (=a fire that starts inside a house)
Faulty electrical wiring is being blamed for a house fire.
a house guest (=someone who is staying in your house)
There was a constant stream of house guests at their country estate.
a house plant (=a plant grown in a pot in the house)
These make excellent house plants.
a house/factory/car etc blaze (=a burning house/factory/car etc)
Three people were badly hurt in a house blaze.
a housing/residential complex (=for people to live in)
Architects designed the residential complexes near the beach.
a property/housing boom (=a sudden increase in house prices)
People made a lot of money in the 1980s property boom.
a water/food/housing etc shortage
The water shortage was reaching crisis proportions.
a16th-/19th- etc century house/church etc
They live in a 17th-century farmhouse.
acid house
art house
art house films
auction house (=a company that arranges auctions)
bawdy house
be (as) safe as housesBritish English (= be completely safe)
Your money will be as safe as houses.
boarding house
charnel house
clearing house
coach house
coffee house
council house
council/industrial/housing etc estate
counting house
country house
crack house
defence/energy/housing etc policy
Our energy policies must put the environment first.
doll's house
doss house
dwelling house
fashion house
free house
front of house
the front-of-house manager
full house
Billy Graham is a speaker who can be sure of playing to a full house.
halfway house
Belief is a kind of halfway house between non-belief and absolute proof.
haunted house
a haunted house
having an open house
We’re having an open house Sunday, noon to 5 pm.
hen house
house arrest
house call
house guest
house husband
house keys
I’ve lost my house keys.
house martin
house music
house of cards
House of Commons
House of Lords
House of Representatives
house party
house/barn/loft etc conversionBritish English (= when you change the use of a house, barn etc, so that it becomes apartments, a house, a room etc)
house/flat/room mate (=someone you share a house, room etc with)
house/food/oil etc prices
A poor harvest led to higher food prices.
house/home insurance
The damage may be covered by your house insurance.
housing association
housing estate
housing project
housing/building landBritish English (= land where houses can be built)
The shortage of housing land is a problem in the south-east.
kept open house
He kept open house for a wide range of artists and writers.
lodging house
Lower House
move house/homeBritish English (= go to live in a different house)
My parents kept moving house because of my dad’s job.
oast house
on the house (=paid for by the restaurant, hotel etc)
Each table will get a bottle of champagne on the house.
open house
Parents are invited to attend the open house next Thursday.
opera house
the Sydney Opera House
play catch/house/tag/school etc
Outside, the children were playing cowboys and Indians.
playing to a full house
Billy Graham is a speaker who can be sure of playing to a full house.
public house
public housing
publishing house (=publishing company)
a new publishing house
ranch house
rooming house
row house
safe house
show house
social housing
station house
sth holds/houses a collectionformal
The museum holds a comprehensive collection of photographs from that period.
tenement building/house/block
terraced house
the house wine (=ordinary wine that is used in restaurants, in contrast to wines that are sold by the bottle and have the label of a wine produce on them )
a glass of the house wine
the housing/property etc market
Investors in the property market are worried about rising inflation.
the key to a door/house/cupboard (=the key that opens a door/house/cupboard)
Has anyone seen the key to the garage door?
the man/woman/house etc of your dreams (=the perfect one for you)
We can help you find the house of your dreams.
the White House
claims that the White House had received warnings of a possible terrorist attack before September 11th
tied house
timbered houses/cottages
Tudor house/buildings/architecture etc (=built in the style used in the Tudor period)
Upper House
view a house/an apartment/a property (=go to see a house etc that you are interested in buying)
wendy house
White House
claims that the White House had received warnings of a possible terrorist attack before September 11th
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
full
The atmosphere was tense and all realised it was heads down for a full house.
The Becketts have a full house and then some.
Even a full house would be piffling for a town with so vast a drawing area.
The next week, we had a full house at the lunch.
Tick them off as they appear - until you can call Diamond full house.
Until the spring almost every night had been a full house, and business had been brisk even after the war started.
There has been a woman governor-general before, but not in this kind of full house.
public
There would be no public houses, but markets and shops would all be in the plan.
All the remaining public houses do bar meals and meals.
One useful change has been the restoring of parity of permitted hours for clubs opening with those enjoyed by public houses.
Work has started re-building one of the region's most well-known public houses.
Many of the smaller gaols formed the rear of public houses with the publican doubling his duties with that of gaoler.
Mr. Gilbert, the complainant, gave evidence that on the evening of 22 April 1990 he was in a public house.
There are two excellent public houses and a charming hillside parish church, all worth visiting.
The accident outside the George public house at Gravesend followed violence in the town centre.
safe
It was logical really that I should be brought from my anonymous safe house to the Hezbollah's Hay Madi barracks.
They reportedly control an organization that lists at least 20 safe houses in Tijuana alone and numbers as many as 400 people.
It was a safe house in a bad area at a bad time.
Side turnings; stopovers; safe houses.
And the finest safe house on the road back to Ireland.
We're moving you to a safe house in Wapping.
Past it, except for running safe houses.
She was placed in a safe house but later returned to the coven of her own free will.
upper
Elections to the National Council, the upper house, were held in June 1991.
They successfully tied up the upper house in endless debate.
Nevertheless the odds, in the upper house, remain against one.
Pinochet and who hold the swing vote in the upper house.
They were able to do this because of the informal nature of the old upper house.
The Tories, however, enjoyed the ascendancy in the upper house.
Its members may hope automatically to become members of the Federal Council, the upper house of the proposed new Federal Assembly.
NOUN
arrest
All this time, Lumumba had been under house arrest in Leopoldville.
Tried in Hanoi on charges of sedition, he died under house arrest in Hue fifteen years later.
Teitgen said 3,024 of the 24,000 people he had ordered to be put under house arrest disappeared.
Park then placed him under house arrest, while his captors went free, and later imprisoned him for sedition.
And the Demomcrats leader remained under house arrest.
After he voluntarily returned home in 1985, Kim was placed under house arrest again.
They are keeping scores of officials under house arrest in the hotel.
Upon release in June, he faces five years of house arrest and probation.
auction
Both dealers and auction houses favour the tax benefit.
World Golf opened in mid-December in Sherman Oaks, in a brick building that once was an auction house.
And if the auction houses aren't doing well ... it's a vicious circle.
Particularly in New York, many of the auction houses look intimidating.
In addition to fashion, Bond Street is also renowned for its auction houses and for its fine art galleries.
It cost $ 93, 500 at an auction house.
The auction house typically takes a cut of the vendor's taking.
The wealthy Detroit property developer of shopping malls enjoyed the social prestige of owning the world's largest auction house.
clearing
Thus, it is nothing more than a clearing house which does nothing in its own right.
How efficient the place was - a model clearing house for death, turning out its yearly quota of corpses.
The clearing house holds accounts for all the clearing members of the exchange.
The short informs the clearing house of these arrangements.
Out-of-hours trading is permitted by the clearing house and can account for up to a third of on-exchange trading.
Overburdened by commitments elsewhere, Unesco can only act as a clearing house for independently sponsored initiatives.
It also acted as a central store and clearing house for hops, organising the supply to the brewers.
Arrangements will include a clearing house to help match staff with vacancies and special provisions for retraining.
country
Nivingston House Charming old country house restaurant.
It was her first experience of staying in a country house.
When she spoke of it, I saw her as a little girl in a great Virginia country house.
The home was not for most a country house or a cottage, but a town villa or tenement.
Inside, there's a country house atmosphere.
Good country house furniture in mahogany and pine, plus silver, brass and pictures, are on sale.
The absence of panegyric in itself sets Leapor's poem apart from earlier country house poems.
guest
Accommodations include several hotels and small inns, guest houses, farmhouses and self-catering units.
Please note that prices quoted by hotels and guest houses may be based on double occupancy of a room.
I saw the helicopter hover in the air, and then it crashed into our guest house.
We left the guest house, going through stone-vaulted passageways into the cloister garth.
Three years later, the couple opened their 10-bedroom home-with-a-difference as a guest house.
There are a full range of excellent hotels and guest houses throughout the county.
There is also a guest house, studio, tennis court and pool.
manor
Beautiful, medieval, moated manor house in the heart of the Kentish Weald.
I walk a way along the beach, then turn to look at the manor house.
She had made enough money to maintain Cliff Top as the substantial manor house it had become.
Families cherished their forbears, whether these had lived in humble cottages or in manor houses.
The hotel was a converted manor house.
Wood Dalling Hall epitomises the perfect Elizabethan manor house.
Meanwhile, Seb tied the reins of his horse to the back of the cart before sprinting towards the manor house.
Most of these studios have beautiful sea views, and are situated in the main part of the Manor house.
opera
Not only was the curtain rung down but the opera house was dismantled.
They polished up the opera house, and every summer stars from the Metropolitan came out and performed.
She frequently appeared on the London stage and other leading opera houses, and sang with Paul Robeson at Caernarfon.
Look at the opera house and supertitles.
Once the best you could hope for was a 50-year-old prima ballerina who sometimes starred at the local opera house.
There was great resistance initially, but now almost every opera house uses them.
Mr Clinton was horribly late for a night at the Hanoi opera house, keeping everyone waiting.
By the mid-1880s Atchison had gas and electricity, a hospital, a good library, and an opera house.
price
Despite these house price rises, housing conditions in Manchester remained poor with almost 30 percent lacking exclusive plumbing facilities.
For this reason fears have been expressed that rising house prices pose a major threat to price stability generally.
The allowance will be based on a payment of £100 for each £1000 of agreed house price difference.
Its special factors should be recognised and it should have a regional banding system more reflective of its house prices.
But until April, lower interest rates failed to offset the impact of the recession and house prices continued to fall.
Indeed, the financial institutions would be hit by a continued slip in house prices.
The figures on relative shares then become highly variable, depending on factors such as share prices and house prices.
As long as house prices rise this will present no problem.
software
If you bought mail order, then the first point of contact is the software house or importer concerned.
The goal is to have several hundred software houses rallied to the banner by the end of the year.
Second, software houses are happily riding the wave of innovation that the Internet has set off.
It is also contemplating tie-ups with software houses or large user organisations abroad.
Another 7 percent is contracted with independent software house, and computer makers provide the remaining 6 percent.
This exploratory project examines the marketing procedure undertaken by a number of software houses.
The advantage of working with a software house to design your own package is that the end product is tailor-made.
Sierra On-Line is a software house that is justly famous for its high-quality games.
VERB
build
So all you budding Fred Flintstones can now build a house for Wilma.
Still unsuccessful, they built and sold houses.
Their desire to keep rates down made them reluctant to build council houses.
Speedo Man is a very gifted woodworker who built his house from the ground up, she tells me.
Why is it the policy of the Government to build fewer houses?
A.. Try plumbing supply shops, hardware stores and building supply houses.
He was building this house and he did not know why.
One built a house of straw, one built a house of sticks, one built a house of bricks.
buy
He had bought a small house - a cottage really.
I need to buy a house, she writes to Rich.
He is buying a farm house along with several acres of ground, but the riding will be strictly for his children.
The couple worked hard, and managed to raise and educate three children and to buy a house.
Robert Maxwell bought the houses and some of the adjacent land in nineteen eighty eight.
His wife was pregnant, they were looking to buy a house, and he needed to make money.
Since buying the cottage, house prices had started on a steady descent.
And he wanted to buy the house because...
keep
His tough character keeps him in the house and looks forward to the awaiting adventure.
This is not the way I keep my house.
There is no doubt that she will be kept busy at her house in Elderslie with eight grand-children in her family.
Where keeping house and cooking were not female chores but simple tasks of pleasure and survival.
No, I shall keep the house exactly as it was; he'd want me to do that.
It was hard work keeping house.
She couldn't bear things like Anna refusing to keep house or giving any pleasure to herself.
move
It also asks about their work, their educational qualifications, and whether they have moved house in recent years.
He recently moved from his house near Ina and Shannon to one near his store.
I spoke to a middle-aged woman in Sunderland who moved into her council house when it was new thirty years ago.
On the first of September we moved into our new house.
Her round of days seemed to me to be a drone-like existence, moving from house to compound, compound to house.
Then he moved to a half way house for gay alcoholics.
You've moved house and now live in an area away from your family and old friends.
They moved into the three-bedroom house in February of that year and said they have enjoyed every day since.
own
He owned half the houses in Page Street as well as his flourishing transport concern.
He and his wife own a showcase house in the Armory Park neighborhood.
And this pillock that owned the house later painted over it with emulsion.
Meanwhile, the family owning the house cooked food and prepared drinks for all the people working.
The church once owned the house on Greenfield Drive where Pimentel and his wife, Evelyn, live with their son.
I've never owned a house.
I wonder if the guy who owns the house films what goes on there with hidden cameras.
rent
It was something connected with three students who rented their house some years ago.
He and Maria rented a small house.
Farrelly rented a house nearby and she would play truant, hitching the eight miles there to rehearse.
Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
I was under the impression that people who rented council houses would have to pay the new council tax in addition to their rents.
One of my busboys commutes from a rented house in Fairfield.
Covers both the private and social rented sectors and considers rent levels, rent patterns, house prices and rates of return.
He had been trying to rent his houses, but with-out success.
run
I ran out of the house immediately and came to London to ask for your help.
I seen blood, and with his screaming, I panicked and ran straight to our house.
The local sea's bare running up to the house tufting its waves with red seaweed spread against a Hebridean noon.
The day ticked by slowly and finally I was out on the street, running toward the Trowbridge house.
The cavalry officer pushed a hand through his long golden hair as he ran up the house steps.
Diana Macias, then 15, recounted later how she ran through her smoke-filled house trying to find a way out.
As soon as the doctor arrived, he ran breathlessly into the house and burst into the room without knocking.
I ran out of the house, car keys in my hand.
share
Hay, who shared Bryan's house in Fulham, south London, always forgave him.
We shared this house all the years of my childhood, and a good many summers afterward.
Also sharing the house, a fox terrier called Leo.
There they shared a house sheltered by love.
A proper rented room in a shared house in Chiswick.
She had wanted to share the house for, after all, history belongs to everybody.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be under house arrest
He, he was under house arrest.
The editor of the party newspaper is under house arrest for printing a report about tanks being moved out of Tirana.
We are not in darkest prison like our brothers and sisters in the flesh, but we are under house arrest.
brokerage house/firm
Adler Coleman, a clearing company for about 40 brokerage firms, files for bankruptcy protection.
Also, many foreign-exchange brokerage firms closed at noon.
Because she has a substantial portfolio, she should be able to seek this out at any full-service brokerage firm.
Computer and semiconductor stocks slid as three brokerage firms downgraded earnings estimates for Dell Computer.
Of course, there is intense competition among the London brokerage houses to signal their bids as fast as possible.
The authority said the banks and brokerage firms eliminated or are resolving the problems.
dream house/home/job etc
A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
eat sb out of house and home
Our sixteen-year-old is eating us out of house and home.
feng shui a room/house etc
from place to place/house to house etc
have your hair cut/your house painted etc
house/flat share
In the wall both houses shared there was a little chink.
Many brokerage house shares were also lower.
The facility also houses shared and dedicated web hosting servers.
house/flat with vacant possession
not a dry eye in the house
There wasn't by a dry eye in the house after Marvin finished his graduation speech.
people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
rented accommodation/housing/apartment etc
Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
set up home/house
All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together.
The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury.
Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?
sheltered accommodation/housing
A regional study of difficult-to-let sheltered accommodation for older people Falshaw, Richard.
Apartments opened A £725,000 sheltered housing scheme for the elderly was officially opened in Irvinestown today.
For example, little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled.
Shortly after buying it, Denega was refused listed building consent to demolish the chapel and develop 21 sheltered accommodation units.
The sheltered housing is close to local amenities to allow residents easy access to shops and other facilities.
The issue is to decide the extent to which sufferers may be supported and maintained in sheltered housing.
We have sheltered accommodation, with understanding professional staff, for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves.
With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units.
the House of Commons
the House of Lords
the House of Representatives
the Speaker of the House
Gore even enlisted the aid of Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the House.
the White House
the lady of the house
And the lady of the house hugs you and laughs, and takes you to the sea to wash your face.
Here again the lady of the house was so kind and resourceful.
I don't know what he said to the lady of the house, but we were not invited to return.
Then the lady of the house calls them to come and eat, and the sad little performance ends.
the man of the house
But even when the man of the house was around, she was head of the household and determined all our fortunes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a detached house in Surrey
a three-bedroom semi-detached house
America's oldest publishing house
Be quiet or you'll wake the whole house!
I'm going to Bethany's house after school.
I went over to Barbara's house after school.
My parents have a five-bedroom house.
Our house is the one with the red door.
the House of Dior
The bill has the backing of both houses of Congress.
The street ran between rows of dingy terraced houses.
The street was lined with identical red-brick houses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Dilapidated public schools-their windows covered by protective grilles coexist with crack houses.
I was dressed and out of the house in ten long minutes with gas-fuelled hair tongs in my hand.
Immediately these men destroyed the houses that had been built on the land.
Mrs Kim-Soon exclaimed that she would not put up with another Mrs Kim-Soon in the house.
Now they had a smart restaurant in Blackheath, another in Knightsbridge, and a chain of pizza houses.
She left the house for the farmers' market.
Which gives my house the unique decor of a kitsch museum crossed with a landfill.
Women orbited about surfers on the beach; they clung to them in cars; they occupied their houses in loose liaisons.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
building
Every building seems designed to house desks and computers.
By the early 1970s there were five buildings housing about thirty-five hundred men and women.
The building also houses the Regional Archives.
As for the library, the surviving books without a proper building to house them must have made a dismal appearance.
This was purpose-built as a corn mill, although Constance used part of the building to house his wood-turning business.
The new building will house its manufacturing, research, laboratory, sales, marketing and administration departments.
A massive, grey stone Victorian building, it housed over 1600 inmates, twice its allotted amount.
Public buildings such as libraries house less personal records in the form of newspapers, parliamentary accounts and other documents.
collection
The possibility of a new wing to house the future photographic collections is under discussion.
Railway enthusiasts will be interested in the Richard Guinness Hall which houses his magnificent collection of many prototypes of early railway engines.
The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle houses an exquisite collection of objetsd'art.
For a short time in the 1920s this library housed the collections of the National Gallery.
Baron Ferdinand wanted to house his fine collections and have somewhere to entertain his guests.
Today the Gallery houses a fine collection of furniture and paintings.
More surprisingly, the Pitti Palace at Florence housed a collection of amber vessels, cabinets, figures, caskets and crucifixes.
family
It was large enough to house his family of six, and three resident maids.
museum
The second floor also houses the museum of Contemporary Art.
Normally housed in a museum beneath the Kremlin Armory, they have never before traveled to the United States.
The High Synagogue now houses a textile museum and you may buy tickets here for all the museums in the ghetto.
The mill buildings house a museum of old implements and materials associated with corn production and milling.
The exploration company said artifacts recovered from the new expedition will be housed in a permanent museum and exhibited around the world.
After all, these mummies were housed in a museum in Ur mchi.
In Florence, for example, statues have been taken down and housed in museums with replicas being put in their place.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be under house arrest
He, he was under house arrest.
The editor of the party newspaper is under house arrest for printing a report about tanks being moved out of Tirana.
We are not in darkest prison like our brothers and sisters in the flesh, but we are under house arrest.
brokerage house/firm
Adler Coleman, a clearing company for about 40 brokerage firms, files for bankruptcy protection.
Also, many foreign-exchange brokerage firms closed at noon.
Because she has a substantial portfolio, she should be able to seek this out at any full-service brokerage firm.
Computer and semiconductor stocks slid as three brokerage firms downgraded earnings estimates for Dell Computer.
Of course, there is intense competition among the London brokerage houses to signal their bids as fast as possible.
The authority said the banks and brokerage firms eliminated or are resolving the problems.
dream house/home/job etc
A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
from place to place/house to house etc
house/flat share
In the wall both houses shared there was a little chink.
Many brokerage house shares were also lower.
The facility also houses shared and dedicated web hosting servers.
house/flat with vacant possession
job-hunting/house-hunting/flat-hunting
not a dry eye in the house
There wasn't by a dry eye in the house after Marvin finished his graduation speech.
people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
rented accommodation/housing/apartment etc
Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
sheltered accommodation/housing
A regional study of difficult-to-let sheltered accommodation for older people Falshaw, Richard.
Apartments opened A £725,000 sheltered housing scheme for the elderly was officially opened in Irvinestown today.
For example, little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled.
Shortly after buying it, Denega was refused listed building consent to demolish the chapel and develop 21 sheltered accommodation units.
The sheltered housing is close to local amenities to allow residents easy access to shops and other facilities.
The issue is to decide the extent to which sufferers may be supported and maintained in sheltered housing.
We have sheltered accommodation, with understanding professional staff, for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves.
With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units.
the House of Commons
the House of Lords
the House of Representatives
the Speaker of the House
Gore even enlisted the aid of Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the House.
the White House
the lady of the house
And the lady of the house hugs you and laughs, and takes you to the sea to wash your face.
Here again the lady of the house was so kind and resourceful.
I don't know what he said to the lady of the house, but we were not invited to return.
Then the lady of the house calls them to come and eat, and the sad little performance ends.
the man of the house
But even when the man of the house was around, she was head of the household and determined all our fortunes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Last year, the Tri-City Homeless Coalition housed 800 people.
The plush hotel once housed a casino and several restaurants.
The refugees have been fed, clothed and housed by welfare organizations around the world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
The High Synagogue now houses a textile museum and you may buy tickets here for all the museums in the ghetto.

house

I. ˈhouse ˌmusic (also house) noun [UNCOUNTABLE]
a type of popular dance music

II. house1 S1 W1 /haʊs/ noun (plural houses /ˈhaʊzəz, ˈhaʊzɪz/)
[Language : Old English; Origin : hus]
1. WHERE SOMEONE LIVES [COUNTABLE]
a) a building that someone lives in, especially one that has more than one level and is intended to be used by one family:
  ▪ a four-bedroom house
in a house
  ▪ every room in the house
at sb’s house
  ▪ We met at Alison’s house.
  ▪ Why don’t you all come over to our house for coffee?
move house British English (=leave your house and go to live in another one)
b) the house all the people who live in a house SYN household:
  ▪ He gets up at six and disturbs the whole house.

2. BUILDING
a) opera/court/movie etc house a large public building used for a particular purpose
b) House British English used in the names of large buildings, especially offices:
  ▪ the BBC television studios at Broadcasting House
c) hen house/coach house/storehouse etc a building used for a particular purpose

3. GOVERNMENT [COUNTABLE]a group of people who make the laws of a country:
  ▪ The president will address both houses of Congress.
the House of Commons/Lords/Representatives/Assembly
  ▪ the speaker of the house ⇨ Lower House, Upper House

4. COMPANY [COUNTABLE]a company, especially one involved in a particular area of business:
  ▪ America’s oldest publishing house
  ▪ a small independent software house
  ▪ an auction house
  ▪ a famous Italian fashion house

5. THEATRE [COUNTABLE]
a) the part of a theatre, cinema etc where people sit OPP backstage:
  ▪ The show has been playing to full houses.
  ▪ The house was half empty.
  ▪ The house lights went down and the music started.
b) the people who have come to watch a performance SYN audience
full/packed/empty house (=a large or small audience)
  ▪ The show has been playing to packed houses since it opened.

6. in house
if you work in house, you work at the offices of a company or organization, not at home ⇨ in-house

7. put/set/get your (own) house in order
used to say that someone should improve the way they behave before criticizing other people

8. bring the house down
to make a lot of people laugh, especially when you are acting in a theatre

9. be on the house
if drinks or meals are on the house, you do not have to pay for them because they are provided free by the owner of the bar, restaurant etc

10. house wine
(also house red/white) ordinary wine that is provided by a restaurant to be drunk with meals:
  ▪ A glass of house red, please.

11. get on/along like a house on fire
British English informal to quickly have a very friendly relationship

12. set up house
to start to live in a house, especially with another person:
  ▪ The two of them set up house in Brighton.

13. keep house
to regularly do all the cleaning, cooking etc in a house:
  ▪ His daughter keeps house for him.

14. SCHOOL [COUNTABLE] British English in some schools, one of the groups that children of different ages are divided into to compete against each other, for example in sports competitions

15. ROYAL FAMILY [COUNTABLE]an important family, especially a royal family:
  ▪ the House of Windsor

16. MUSIC [UNCOUNTABLE]house music

17. house of God/worship
literary a church

18. this house
formal used to mean the people who are voting in a formal debate when you are stating the proposal that is being discussed ⇨ DOLL’S HOUSE, ⇨ eat somebody out of house and home at eat(10), ⇨ open house, public house, ⇨ (as) safe as houses at safe1(5)
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COLLOCATIONS
verbs
live in a house
  ▪ They live in a really big house in Hampstead.
buy a house
  ▪ We bought this house when Liam was just a baby.
rent a house
  ▪ While he was working in London, Ken rented a house in Fulham.
sell a house
  ▪ We decided to sell the house and move back to Seattle.
put your house on the market (=make it available for people to buy)
  ▪ They put the house on the market and began looking for an apartment.
move into/out of a house
  ▪ We’re moving into our new house next week.
build a house
  ▪ They’re building a house on land overlooking Galway Bay.
put up a house (=build a house, especially when it seems very quick)
  ▪ I think they’ve ruined the village by putting up these new houses.
renovate a house (=repair a house so that it is in good condition again)
  ▪ He makes money by renovating old houses and selling them on.
decorate a house (=put paint or wallpaper on the inside walls of a house)
  ▪ If we’re going to decorate the house, let’s get professionals in.
do up a house informal (=decorate it)
  ▪ We’ve been doing up the house bit by bit since we first moved in.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + house
a private house (=one owned by someone)
  ▪ It was a residential neighborhood of private houses.
a rented house (=one owned by someone who rents it to people)
  ▪ She shares a rented house with three other students.
a council house British English (=one owned by a local council that people can rent cheaply)
  ▪ The rent rise is a blow to council house tenants.
a Georgian/Victorian/Edwardian etc house (=a house in Britain that was built during the reign of a particular king or queen )
  ▪ They live in a lovely old Edwardian house with high ceilings.
house + NOUN
house prices
  ▪ House prices have tripled over the last ten years.
a house owner
  ▪ All house owners must pay council tax.
a house purchase
  ▪ A solicitor can help you with the legal aspects of a house purchase.
house hunting (=the activity of looking at houses that you might buy)
  ▪ Have you had any success with your house hunting?
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THESAURUS
house a building that someone lives in, especially one that is intended for one family, person, or couple to live in :
  ▪ Annie and Rick have just bought their first house.
  ▪ The price of houses is going up all the time.
detached house British English a house that is not joined to another house :
  ▪ a detached four-bedroomed house
semi-detached house British English a house that is joined to another house on one side
terraced house British English, row house American English one of a row of houses that are joined together
townhouse one of a row of houses that are joined together. In British English, townhouse is often used about a large and impressive house in a fashionable area of a city :
  ▪ an 18th-century townhouse in Bath
cottage a small house in the country – used especially about houses in the UK :
  ▪ a little cottage in the country
  ▪ a thatched cottage (=with a roof made of straw)
bungalow a small house that is all on one level :
  ▪ Bungalows are suitable for many elderly people.
country house a large house in the countryside, especially one that is of historical interest :
  ▪ The hotel was originally an Edwardian country house.
mansion a very large house :
  ▪ the family’s Beverly Hills mansion
mobile home (also trailer American English) a type of house that can be pulled by a large vehicle and moved to another place
ranch house American English a long narrow house that is all on one level :
  ▪ a California ranch house
duplex American English a house that is divided into two separate homes
an apartment
apartment especially American English, flat British English a set of rooms where someone lives that is part of a house or bigger building. In British English, people usually say flat. Apartment is used about large and expensive flats, or in advertisements :
  ▪ His apartment is on the eighth floor.
  ▪ In London, I shared a flat with some other students.
condominium (also condo informal) American English one apartment in a building with several apartments, owned by the people who live in them :
  ▪ a 10-unit condominium complex
a group of houses
development a group of new houses or other buildings that are all planned and built together on the same piece of land :
  ▪ The site is to be used for a new housing development.
estate British English an area where a large group of houses have all been built together at the same time :
  ▪ She grew up on a council estate in Leeds.

III. house2 /haʊz/ verb [TRANSITIVE]
1. to provide someone with a place to live
house in
  ▪ The refugees are being housed in temporary accommodation.

2. if a building, place, or container houses something, it is kept there
house in
  ▪ The collection is currently housed in the British Museum.
  ▪ the plastic case that houses the batteries

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