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• family unit — index family (household) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• family unit — noun primary social group; parents and children he wanted to have a good job before starting a family • Syn: ↑family • Derivationally related forms: ↑familial (for: ↑family) • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• family — fam·i·ly / fam lē, fa mə / n pl lies 1: a group of individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption 2: a group of usu. related individuals who live together under common household authority and esp. who have reciprocal duties to each other ◇… …   Law dictionary

• family practice — family practitioner. medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification. * * * or family medicine or general practice Field of medicine that stresses comprehensive… …   Universalium

• Family Coalition Party of Ontario — Active provincial party Leader Phil Lees President Lynne Scime …   Wikipedia

• FAMILY — In the Bible An accurate sociological description of the family and its legalstatus in biblical times is virtually impossible because the relevant evidence is not of a strictly socio descriptive nature. SOURCES Some of the most often quoted… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• unit — 01. We will begin [unit] four in the grammar text on Monday. 02. The patient received four [units] of blood during the operation. 03. She has been working in the marketing [unit] for over a year now. 04. He always gets confused when trying to… …   Grammatical examples in English

• unit — noun 1 single thing ADJECTIVE ▪ large, small ▪ basic, fundamental ▪ The family is the basic unit of society. ▪ discrete, individu …   Collocations dictionary

• Family — For other uses, see Family (disambiguation). Relationships …   Wikipedia

• family — fam|i|ly W1S1 [ˈfæməli] n plural families ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(closely related group)¦ 2¦(all your relations)¦ 3¦(children)¦ 4 family size/pack etc 5¦(group of animals/things)¦ 6 she s/he s family 7 in the family way ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1400 1500; …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• family, sociology of — The family is an intimate domestic group made up of people related to one another by bonds of blood, sexual mating, or legal ties. It has been a very resilient social unit that has survived and adapted through time. Yet, on both sides of the… …   Dictionary of sociology