householder
noun
house·hold·er
ˈhau̇s-ˌhōl-dər 
ˈhau̇-ˌsōl-
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According to Statista, there were approximately 7.21 million families led by a male householder without a spouse in 2023, up from 2.9 million in 1990.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Instead of being sent on a trip to Disney World, the householders are involved during the renovation process, which has been shortened from one week to four days.
—Maxwell Millington, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
To wash it down, make the drink that householders traditionally shared with their visitors: hot beer, syrupy-sweet with brown sugar and ginger.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 27 Dec. 2024
This heavy bond buying and the remarkable fall in yields announces in other words that neither the Chinese householder nor the Chinese businessperson has any expectation of getting good returns from real economic activity.
—Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Instead of being sent on a trip to Disney World, the householders are involved during the renovation process, which has been shortened from one week to four days.
—Maxwell Millington, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
To wash it down, make the drink that householders traditionally shared with their visitors: hot beer, syrupy-sweet with brown sugar and ginger.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 27 Dec. 2024
This heavy bond buying and the remarkable fall in yields announces in other words that neither the Chinese householder nor the Chinese businessperson has any expectation of getting good returns from real economic activity.
—Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
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householder
noun
house·hold·er
ˈhau̇s-ˌhōl-dər
ˈhau̇-ˌsōl-
: one who lives in a dwelling alone or as the head of a household
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householder
noun
house·hold·er
ˈhau̇s-ˌhōl-dər
: a person who occupies a house alone or as head of a household
specifically
: one who makes a declaration of homestead
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