head of household

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   the head of a household or family or tribe

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Questions about head of household

What does head of household mean?

head of household means "the head of a household or family or tribe".

Is head of household a common word?

head of household is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.