extended household

Noun

extended household (plural extended households)

1. A household with additional members compared to a nuclear family.
   • The low incidence of extended households in my data and the high proportion of high-caste residents precludes a meaningful test of this hypothesis here.1972, Sylvia Vatuk, Kinship and Urbanization: White Collar Migrants in North India, page 63
   • For example, a household consisting of a head, wife, son, and daughter is ordinarily classified as a nuclear household, while a household containing a father, mother, head, and sister is usually classified as an extended household, even though the two are biologically identical.1987, Steven Ruggles, Prolonged Connections: The Rise of the Extended Family in Nineteenth-century England and America
2. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of people living in different places but forming a close support network, obliged to follow lockdown rules as if they belonged to a single household.
   • Under the five tier system in Scotland, people who live on their own or only with children under 18 can form an extended household with people from one other household. People in extended households are counted as one household, and so can continue to meet and socialise with each other despite...2020, Michelle Roberts, “Support bubbles: How do they work and who is in yours?”, in BBC