group home

noun

: a residence for persons requiring care or supervision

Examples of group home in a Sentence

a group home for young adults with disabilities
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Company #2: Reducing Costs For Group Homes The second company focuses on reducing labor costs for group homes serving the elderly and disabled. Herb Zien, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 Homecoming Project director Bernadette Butler acknowledges that the scale of the effort so far is not going to provide a significant alternative to the system of group homes contracted by the state to support the reentry of 35,000 to 40,000 inmates released from California prisons annually. Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024 The Legislature at one point considered ending the Christian association’s monopoly and letting other nonprofits register religious group homes for children. Laura C. Morel, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 Bohren directed the state Department of Health Services to draft a plan for her transition to a group home with supervision subject to his approval at a hearing within 60 days. Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for group home

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of group home was in 1967

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“Group home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/group%20home. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.

Medical Definition

group home

noun
: a residence for persons (as developmentally disabled individuals or foster children) requiring care, assistance, or supervision
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