in-house

adjective

ˈin-ˌhau̇s How to pronounce in-house (audio)
-ˈhau̇s
: existing, originating, or carried on within a group or organization or its facilities : not outside
an in-house publication
a company's in-house staff
in-house adverb

Examples of in-house in a Sentence

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When enterprises rely on devs to build passkeys in-house, any gaps or missteps that occur during the process can surface as user friction later on. Fortune, 3 Jan. 2026 Powering the Wanda series is UniX AI’s in-house technology stack, which combines multimodal semantic keypoints with UniFlex for imitation learning, UniTouch for tactile perception, and UniCortex for long-sequence task planning. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026 Institutional Safety Esteworld’s medical staff is full-time and in-house. Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026 Agencies are adapting by integrating AI tools into their creative pipelines or establishing in-house AI labs. Adam Rumanek, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for in-house

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1956, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of in-house was circa 1956

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“In-house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-house. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.

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