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In economics and computer science, the house allocation problem is the problem of assigning objects to people with different preferences, such that each
House_allocation_problem
Combinatorial optimization problem
problem Rank-maximal allocation Secretary problem Stable matching problem Stable roommates problem Weapon-target assignment problem House allocation problem
Assignment_problem
Topics referred to by the same term
preferences such that each person receives a single item; see House allocation problem. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title
Housing_market
Principle of allocation
a principle of consistency in allocation problems. It says that, when the set of agents participating in the allocation changes, the utility of all agents
Population_monotonicity
Fair division problem
matching) is a kind of a fair division problem. In an assignment problem (also called house-allocation problem or one-sided matching), there are m objects
Fair_random_assignment
Fair division problem for discrete items
Fair item allocation is a kind of the fair division problem in which the items to divide are discrete rather than continuous. The items have to be divided
Fair_item_allocation
Algorithm for trading indivisible items
following house allocation problem. There are n {\displaystyle n} students living in the student dormitories. Each student lives in a single house. Each student
Top_trading_cycle
Distribution procedure
"Random Serial Dictatorship and the Core from Random Endowments in House Allocation Problems". Econometrica. 66 (3): 689. doi:10.2307/2998580. hdl:10161/1866
Random priority item allocation
Random_priority_item_allocation
there may not exist any fair allocation. For example, when there is a single house and 2 people, every allocation of the house will be unfair to 1 person
Efficient approximately fair item allocation
Efficient_approximately_fair_item_allocation
Fair item allocation problem
Envy-free (EF) item allocation is a fair item allocation problem, in which the fairness criterion is envy-freeness - each agent should receive a bundle
Envy-free_item_allocation
Matching where no person wants to switch their thing with someone else's
efficiency of envy-free cake-cutting. Envy-free item allocation Rental harmony House allocation problem Segal-Halevi, Erel; Aigner-Horev, Elad (2022). "Envy-free
Envy-free_matching
Criterion for fair division
Envy-freeness was introduced to the economics problem of resource allocation by Duncan Foley in 1967. In this problem, rather than a single heterogeneous resource
Envy-freeness
Process of achieving a goal by overcoming obstacles
Problem solving is the process of achieving a goal by overcoming obstacles, a frequent part of most activities. Problems in need of solutions range from
Problem_solving
Weakly optimal allocation of resources
consider a resource allocation problem with two resources, which Alice values at {10, 0}, and George values at {5, 5}. Consider the allocation giving all resources
Pareto_efficiency
Lower house of Japan's National Diet
the overall allocation of seats in the House of Representatives is not fully proportional, to the advantage of larger parties. The House of Representatives
House of Representatives (Japan)
House_of_Representatives_(Japan)
Problem of fair division
fairness is attained using randomization. House allocation problem - each agent should get a single object (house); randomization is not allowed. The goals
Rental_harmony
Theory in matching markets
of the market have preferences, as in the house allocation problem and the fair random assignment problem. In that context, the term used is popular
Popular_matching
Computer bugs related to the year 2000
limitation in network routers IPv4 address exhaustion, problems caused by the limited allocation size for numeric internet addresses ISO 8601, an international
Year_2000_problem
have additive preferences (reduction from partition problem). Deciding whether a given allocation is 1-of- n {\displaystyle n} MMS is co-NP complete for
List of unsolved problems in fair division
List_of_unsolved_problems_in_fair_division
Marriage Problem". arXiv:1907.05870v3 [math.CO]. Gan, Jiarui; Suksompong, Warut; Voudouris, Alexandros A. (2019-09-01). "Envy-freeness in house allocation problems"
Hall_violator
Type of economic system
economy is a type of economic system where investment, production and the allocation of capital goods takes place according to economy-wide economic plans
Planned_economy
Criterion for evaluating rules for fair division
apportionment problems, the resource to allocate is discrete, for example, the seats in a parliament. Therefore, each agent must receive an integer allocation. One
Coherence_(fairness)
races. Many states switched from their old winner-take-all allocation to proportional allocation. Many remaining winner-take-all states allocated delegates
2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
2012_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries
seats allocated to parties and lists that cleared a threshold. The seat allocation for the 2026 election was: The centre-right Democratic Rally (DISY) is
2026 Cypriot legislative election
2026_Cypriot_legislative_election
Part of the United Kingdom
minority; especially by the gerrymandering of local electoral boundaries, the allocation of public housing, public sector employment, and policing, showing "a
Northern_Ireland
Indian election
Kamaraj National and Tamil Nadu Congress (K) contested the election. The allocation of seats was later dubbed "The M.G.R. formula". Where the regional party
1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election
1984_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election
How 435 seats are distributed to 50 states
the House: The Wyoming Rule". Outside the Beltway. Wegman, Jesse; Drutman, Lee (January 14, 2025). "Opinion | How to Fix America's Two-Party Problem". The
United States congressional apportionment
United_States_congressional_apportionment
general, deciding whether an ETE allocation exists, even with no past, is NP-complete (by reduction from the partition problem). But if there is no past, and
Temporal_fair_division
Fair division class using unique allocation methods
division problems in which the resources, or the people to whom they should be allocated, or both, are not all available when the allocation decision
Online_fair_division
Standing committee of the United States House of Representatives
the House an "allocation" of "new budget authority". This allocation is important in the consideration of legislation on the floor of the House. If a
United States House Committee on the Budget
United_States_House_Committee_on_the_Budget
Indian politician
a common admission process for national institutes via the Joint Seat Allocation Authority. In 2016 more than 3000 seats were still vacant in the 92 institutes
Prakash_Javadekar
Matchmaking activity on U.S. college campuses
The stable marriage problem, and human matching more generally, is a problem of allocation. Unlike marketplaces, where problems are solved by establishing
Marriage_Pact
2025 legislation in the United States
The law expands the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit with a housing credit allocation increase and a bond threshold test reduction, projected to add up to 1
One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act
Principal protocol used to assign IPv4 addresses on an IPv4 network
client previously had. Manual allocation This method is also variously called static DHCP allocation, fixed address allocation, reservation, and MAC/IP address
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol
Discourse on the applicability of central planning without capital markets
decisions regarding their allocation and use. Bryan Caplan, a libertarian economist, has criticized the version of the calculation problem advanced by Mises arguing
Socialist_calculation_debate
January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021. "2023 Review: Electoral Quota and Allocation of Constituencies Announced". Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland
2024 United Kingdom general election
2024_United_Kingdom_general_election
First large greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme in the world
centralized allocation of permits, not National Allocation Plans, with a greater share of auctioning of permits. Unlike ETS there is no free allocation for the
European Union Emissions Trading System
European_Union_Emissions_Trading_System
2008 film by Andrew Stanton
tree, which WALL-E and EVE admire together. Ben Burtt as WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth-class), a compactor robot who has achieved sentience
WALL-E
Country in North America
(2000). "Canada's Human Rights Policy and ITS Impact on Foreign Assistance Allocation". Peace Research. 32 (4): 85–97. JSTOR 23608002. "Canada and the United
Canada
Problem of sharing resources
partnership dissolutions, divorce settlements, electronic frequency allocation, airport traffic management, and exploitation of Earth observation satellites
Fair_division
Technology used to provide broadband to the end consumer via fiber
during its excess allocation. If the OLT observes that a given ONU is not sending idle frames, it increases the bandwidth allocation to that ONU. Once
Passive_optical_network
Discipline concerning the application of advanced analytical methods
Resource allocation problems Facility location Assignment Problems: Assignment problem Generalized assignment problem Quadratic assignment problem Weapon
Operations_research
Discipline for achieving objectives against unpredictability, complexity, and ambiguity
goals of an enterprise, and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resources necessary for carrying out these goals." Michael Porter defined
Strategy
Plurality voting system
The Problem With First-Past-The-Post Electing (data from UK general election 2005) Archived 21 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine The Problems with First
First-past-the-post_voting
Approach to investment management focusing on allocation of risk
on allocation of risk, usually defined as volatility, rather than allocation of capital. The risk parity approach asserts that when asset allocations are
Risk_parity
Indian political alliance
both general elections to Lok Sabha and Tamil Nadu Assembly in 1984. The allocation of seats were done what was later dubbed, "The M.G.R formula". Where the
AIADMK-led_Alliance
Bet sizing formula for long-term growth
Kelly criterion (or Kelly strategy or Kelly bet) is a formula for risk allocation with the sizing a sequence of bets by maximizing the long-term expected
Kelly_criterion
International song competition
2026. Granger, Anthony (22 December 2025). "Eurovision 2026: Semi-Final Allocation Draw to be Held at Vienna Rathaus". Eurovoix. Retrieved 22 December 2025
Eurovision_Song_Contest_2026
Japanese art of paper folding
only towards the completion of the model. What is more important is the allocation of regions of the paper and how these are mapped to the structure of the
Origami
Process of drawing electoral district boundaries in the United States
process has been a problem since the early days of the republic. Six states have a single representative in the United States House of Representatives
Redistricting
Political party in the United States
Biden enacted the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which is the largest allocation of funds for addressing climate change in the history of the United States
Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic_Party_(United_States)
Election in British India
the tenure of the provincial governments formed under the 1935 Act. The allocation of 250 seats in the assembly was based on the communal award. It is illustrated
1937 Bengal Legislative Assembly election
1937_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election
Arvind Kejriwal, who was under investigation for alleged corruption in the allocation of liquor licences, and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who was
2024_Indian_general_election
Presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea
assessment rating them as a D-grade, the National Assembly prioritized budget allocation for repair work. The Bluehouse Library is located in Yeomin Hall 2, and
Cheong_Wa_Dae
New York City mayoral residence
was elected to succeed Lindsay in 1973, the house was renovated in January 1974 with a $40,000 allocation from the city. The Beames' friend Joan Haber
Gracie_Mansion
Political scandals over anomalous flood control project
for its members in the House of Representatives. The President's son Representative Sandro Marcos got the highest fund allocation at ₱15.8 billion. A Philippine
Flood control projects scandal in the Philippines
Flood_control_projects_scandal_in_the_Philippines
Pension scheme in India
is always under question. The ever increasing year-on-year budgetary allocation for pension expenditure can be attributed to a number of factors which
Old_Pension_Scheme
American economist (born 1951)
"real-world" problems. In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley "for the theory of stable allocations and the
Alvin_E._Roth
Railway depot in Leyton in East London
partnership between FS and Evolyn, but the biggest problem for competitors is to secure space to house and maintain high-speed trains. Eurostar says the
Temple_Mills_Depot
U.S. federal aid program
better serve communities with different types of problems. A city's proportion of the overall CDBG allocation is either the average of the area's fractions
Community Development Block Grant
Community_Development_Block_Grant
Economic system based on social ownership of the means of production in a market economy
socialists wish to retain the use of supply and demand signals to guide the allocation of capital goods and the means of production. Under such a system, depending
Market_socialism
Indian politician (born 1990)
Ravi Subramanya claimed to have unearthed a scam in BBMP's hospital bed allocation system for COVID-19 patients. He was criticised for reading out the names
Tejasvi_Surya
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 2024
revised down to 103 as it emerged that significant double-counting and mis-allocation had occurred in Buncombe County. Two people, a four-year-old girl in Claremont
Hurricane_Helene
Proportional-representation electoral system
senator Daniel Webster. In 1842, the method was adopted for proportional allocation of seats in United States congressional apportionment (Act of 25 June
Sainte-Laguë_method
Selection of the Democratic Party nominee
2017-01-28. "Connecticut Democrat Allocation - 2012". The Green Papers. Retrieved 2019-09-06. "Delaware Democrat Allocation - 2012". The Green Papers. Retrieved
2012 Democratic Party presidential primaries
2012_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
Museum building in Manhattan, New York
ultimately increased to $20 million; this consisted of a $13 million allocation from the Smithsonian and $7 million from private sources. One major donation
Andrew_Carnegie_Mansion
American science fiction TV series
plays the following message: Call to +1 (202) 808–3981 on 9 October 2025 Problems playing this file? See media help. Hi, Carol. We're so glad you called
Pluribus_(TV_series)
20, 2024). "Trump ramps up push for Nebraska to change electoral vote allocation". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 21, 2024. Sanderford
2024 United States presidential election in Nebraska
2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Nebraska
proportional representation. The number of seats is at least 101, and rises when allocation of additional seats is required. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt
2026 Armenian parliamentary election
2026_Armenian_parliamentary_election
President of the United States from 1933 to 1945
(2007). FDR. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6121-1. Sternsher, Bernard (Summer 1975). "The Emergence of the New Deal Party System: A Problem in Historical Analysis
Franklin_D._Roosevelt
Japanese ultranationalist alt-right netizens
Tokyo Bar Association's statement from April 2016, "Request for Proper Allocation of Subsidies to Chōsen Schools," Sasaki Ryo tweeted, "The net right-wingers
Netto-uyoku
Mathematical framework for investment risk
The tangent to the upper part of the hyperbolic boundary is the capital allocation line (CAL). **The vertex of the hyperbola represents the Global Minimum
Modern_portfolio_theory
State government agency in Maharashtra, India
only 217 houses as of August 2019. On 6 August 2021, the organisation planned to initiate the process through a lottery system for allocation of low cost
Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority
Maharashtra_Housing_and_Area_Development_Authority
Order of bytes in a computer word
implementation on the Intel 8080 platform, the operating system-independent File Allocation Table (FAT) file system is defined with little-endian byte ordering, even
Endianness
Urban decay of Detroit from 1950s to 2010s
houses that were known as popular drug-dealing locations, accusing the city's police of being either unwilling or unable to solve the deep problems of
Decline_of_Detroit
enough votes overall to win seats in the National Assembly (based on their allocation of compensatory seats). On 14 June 2024, the ANC, the DA, the Inkatha
2024 South African general election
2024_South_African_general_election
Water-distribution treaty between India and Pakistan
is to facilitate cooperation and address issues concerning the use and allocation of the Indus River system between the two countries. After prolonged talks
Indus_Waters_Treaty
rational allocation of scarce resources." Its goal is to guide entities, private or public, that are confronted with the fundamental problem of economics
Engineering economics (civil engineering)
Engineering_economics_(civil_engineering)
Mayor of Dallas, Texas, United States (born 1975)
of Dallas to receive direct allocations of COVID-19 vaccines. The city of Dallas then received several direct allocations of vaccines that were distributed
Eric Johnson (Texas politician)
Eric_Johnson_(Texas_politician)
Highly-urbanized city in Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines
several issues concerning barangay boundary disputes, seemingly biased allocation of funds for larger barangays in relation to barangays with lesser area
Baguio
Separatist movement in the Donbas region of Ukraine
territory of Donbas". Before the 1917 revolution, the idea of administrative allocation of industrial Donbas region, combining these areas of administrative division
Donbas_separatism
closed factories under combined public and private ownership with 10% allocation for the workers, and free healthcare for the older citizens and children
2026 Bangladeshi general election
2026_Bangladeshi_general_election
allocated either on the District or State level according to state rules. Allocation: Delegates can either be allocated or unallocated at the starting primary
2016 Republican Party presidential primaries
2016_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries
Institution for those unable to support themselves
Poor Law, which discouraged the allocation of outdoor relief to the able-bodied; "all cases were to be 'offered the house', and nothing else". Individual
Workhouse
Type of activation function
the neighborhood of zero and sharper for bigger values, allowing better allocation of neurons in the learning process for higher performance. Thanks to its
Rectified_linear_unit
Racial controversy in the Smethwick constituency
had been attempted to be put into place in Smethwick's housing allocation, with houses on Marshall Street in Smethwick being let only to white British
Smethwick in the 1964 general election
Smethwick_in_the_1964_general_election
British television series
them more claustrophobic." The location used for exterior shots of Kerry's house is at 16 Fortey Road in Northleach. Filming for the first series began in
This_Country
Human rights controversy
there were no significant improvements to the voluntary organ donation or allocation system, and the supply of death row inmates as donors also did not increase
Forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China
Forced_organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China
Government ministry of India
Planning and Implementation U-DISE National Achievement Survey "TOTAL BUDGET ALLOCATION FOR MINISTRY OF EDUCATION HAS REACHED ₹128,650 CRORE". Press Information
Ministry_of_Education_(India)
antithetical to partition and working to hold together a composite Bengal. The allocation of 250 seats in the assembly was based on the communal award. It is illustrated
1946 Bengal Legislative Assembly election
1946_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election
Workshop house of Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov
The Melnikov House (the workshop house of the architect Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov) is a one-apartment residential house, a landmark building of the
Melnikov_House
Government of Tamil Nadu 2021-2026
all Welfare schemes, including the status of their implementation, fund allocation and the number of beneficiaries. The dashboard is set to help in proper
Chief ministership of M. K. Stalin
Chief_ministership_of_M._K._Stalin
and law to govern the consideration of multiracial affairs and of the allocation, in racial terms, of access to economic, social, and political status
History of South Africa (1948–1994)
History_of_South_Africa_(1948–1994)
Psychological focus, perception and prioritising discrete information
different ways. In cognitive psychology, attention is often described as the allocation of limited cognitive processing resources to a subset of information,
Attention
Method by which voters make a choice between options
multi-member constituencies; the allocation of seats in the multi-member constituencies is adjusted to achieve an overall seat allocation proportional to parties'
Electoral_system
When a computer program fails to release unnecessary memory
leak that occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in a way that memory which is no longer needed is not released. A memory
Memory_leak
British politician (born 1980)
and the Stanford admissions officer at that time responsible for the allocation of bursaries to international students subsequently denied this happened
Kemi_Badenoch
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979
voting franchise, and a reform of local government boundaries and housing allocations. Although the troops were initially welcomed by Northern Ireland's Catholics
James_Callaghan
Delivery plan in the United Kingdom
docks for allocation. In England and Wales this was often in small numbers to rural areas in support of farm workers. The first of these houses were built
Prefabs_in_the_United_Kingdom
1257/aer.20181249. ISSN 0002-8282. Article 101 of the Constitution of China "Allocation of the Number of Deputies". China Internet Information Center. Archived
Elections_in_China
HOUSE ALLOCATION-PROBLEM
HOUSE ALLOCATION-PROBLEM
Boy/Male
Australian, British, English, French, Teutonic
House
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a person with red hair, from Middle English, Old French rous ‘red(-haired)’ (Latin russ(e)us).Americanized spelling of German Raus.
Boy/Male
British, English
House
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
House
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
House
Boy/Male
Finnish
House.
Girl/Female
Biblical
A house for a mouse.
Girl/Female
Australian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Norse, Scandinavian, Swedish
House of Power; Hall; Strength; House Woman; Woman of the House; House
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of House 1.Americanized spelling of German Hauser.
Surname or Lastname
French
French : from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Hildo (see Hildebrand, Houde).French : habitational name from any of several places in Normandy called La Houle or Les Houles, named in Old French with the singular or plural of houle ‘cave’.English : variant of Hole.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name from Middle English hose, huse ‘brambles’, ‘thorns’.English : habitational name from a place in Leicestershire, named from Old English hÅs, plural of hÅh ‘spur of land’ (literally ‘heel’), or a topographic name with the same meaning.English and German : metonymic occupational name from Middle English, Middle Low and High German hose ‘hose’, ‘leggings’, denoting a knitter or seller of hose, or a nickname for someone who habitually wore noticeble legwear.German (Upper Saxony) : apparently from a Czech personal name, Hos, a reduced form of Johannes (see John).
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Oxfordshire and Berkshire)
English (mainly Oxfordshire and Berkshire) : variant of Howes.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Australian, Muslim
House; Walls of House of Kabba
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Bride
Boy/Male
English
House
Surname or Lastname
English (southwestern)
English (southwestern) : from Middle English hous ‘house’ (Old English hūs). In the Middle Ages the majority of the population lived in cottages or huts rather than houses, and in most cases this name probably indicates someone who had some connection with the largest and most important building in a settlement, either a religious house or simply the local manor house. In some cases it may be a status name for a householder, someone who owned his own dwelling as opposed to being a tenant, but more often it is an occupational name for a servant who worked in such a house, in particular a steward who managed one.English : respelling of Howes.Translation of German Haus.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the medieval northern English personal name Kouse, Kause, corresponding to Old Norse Kausi, a nickname meaning ‘tomcat’.English : Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Kaus or Ku(h)se, which is of unexplained origin.
Biblical
house of song; the house of affliction,house of dates, or house of misery,House of Misery
Boy/Male
English
House.
Boy/Male
Polynesian
House.
HOUSE ALLOCATION-PROBLEM
HOUSE ALLOCATION-PROBLEM
Girl/Female
Australian, German, Spanish
Snake; Pretty; Tender Beauty
Boy/Male
Afghan, Arabic, Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Muslim, Urdu
Skilled; Expert
Male
Hebrew
(×ֶפְרַיִ×) Variant spelling of Hebrew Ephrayim, EFRAYIM means "double-land; twin-land." In the bible, this is the name of the second son of Joseph.Â
Surname or Lastname
English (Devon)
English (Devon) : from the rare Old English masculine personal name Mocca, which may be related to a Germanic stem mokk- ‘to accumulate’, ‘to be heaped up’, and hence may originally have been a nickname for a heavy, thickset person. Alternatively, it could be from Middle English mokke ‘trick’, ‘joke’, ‘jest’, ‘act of jeering’, a derivative of mokke(n) ‘to mock’, from Old French moquer.German : variant of Maag.German : nickname for a short, thickset man, Middle High German mocke.Dutch : nickname from Middle Dutch mocke ‘dirty or wanton woman’, ‘slut’, or from West Flemish mokke ‘fat child’.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Twilight, Evening, Close of the day
Male
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Dubhghall, DOUGAL means "black stranger."Â
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
One with Good Heart
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : patronymic from the personal name Will, a very common medieval short form of William.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Greek GabriÄ“l (Hebrew Gabriyel), GABRIEL means "man of God" or "warrior of God." This is the name of one of the seven archangels of religious lore. In the bible, he is known as the messenger angel, he is one of the two highest-ranking angels, and apart from Michael is the only other angel given a name in the Old Testament where he is first mentioned in the Book of Daniel. He is the angel who announced the births of John the Baptist and Jesus. He is said to watch over Iran (Persia), and in Ezekiel's vision of the cherubim (the four sacred animals), the face of the eagle corresponds to him. In ancient astrology, he corresponds to the sign of Taurus and rules over the moon.Â
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Sanskrit
To Expand; Progress
HOUSE ALLOCATION-PROBLEM
HOUSE ALLOCATION-PROBLEM
HOUSE ALLOCATION-PROBLEM
HOUSE ALLOCATION-PROBLEM
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n.
An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.
v. t.
To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.
n.
Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest.
pl.
of Weigh-house
n.
Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.
n.
Alt. of Lombar-house
n.
An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company.
n.
A public house; an inn; a hotel.
n.
One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament.
n.
A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel.
n.
A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.
pl.
of House
n.
Those who dwell in the same house; a household.
imp. & p. p.
of House
v. t.
To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.
v. i.
To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8.
n.
Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.
n.
See Allocution.
pl.
of Hose
n.
A second location.