apartment house |
a building containing a number of individual apartments; apartment building. |
boardinghouse |
a residence that provides rooms and meals to paying lodgers. |
clean house |
to force out all undesired people or things. |
clearinghouse |
a central place where materials or information are collected or maintained, esp. for distribution. [2 definitions] |
customhouse |
a government office or building, usu. at a seaport, where customs on imports are collected and ships are cleared to enter or leave port. |
death house |
a prison building where prisoners awaiting execution are housed, and where execution takes place. |
discount house |
a store that regularly sells merchandise for less than the usual retail prices; discount store. |
duplex house |
a house that has been divided into two separate living units. |
engine house |
a building in which large engines, such as fire engines or locomotives, are kept when not in use. |
field house |
a large building, usu. located at a college or university, suitable for indoor athletic activities, esp. track events, basketball, or gymnastics. [2 definitions] |
full house |
in poker, a hand that contains three of a kind and a pair, such as three aces and two sixes. |
halfway house |
a special residence where people who have been released from institutions, such as mental patients, prisoners, and drug addicts, are helped to adjust to ordinary life. |
house arrest |
legal confinement of a person under arrest in his or her home, a hospital, or a public building rather than in jail or prison. |
House of Burgesses |
formerly, the assembly of legislative representatives in colonial Virginia. |
house of cards |
any structure, plan, arrangement, or the like that will collapse or fail because of its flimsiness. |
House of Commons |
one of the houses of the British and Canadian parliaments. Members are elected by the people. |
house of correction |
an institution for the confinement and reformation of those convicted of minor offenses who are not regarded as confirmed criminals. |
House of Delegates |
the lower house of the state legislatures of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. |
house of ill fame |
a house of prostitution; bordello. |
house of ill repute |
a house of prostitution; bordello. |