in house
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.70 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Belonging to or part of an organization; internal.
adv
Occurring within an establishment, using existing personnel, facilities, and supplies, as opposed to at some external supplier or customer.
Example Sentences
- "All of the Disney World character costumes were developed in house, using materials like rubber for Mickey Mouse's face and crushed velvet for his black fur."
- "We like to keep our product and process development in house to help protect our intellectual property rights."
- "Max was anticipating paperbacking The Bodley Head's books in house rather than licensing the paperback rights to a third party, like Penguin, which reduced his royalties and might eventually lose him authors to vertical publishers."