in-house

adjective

ˈin-ˌhau̇s 

-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

Recent Examples on the Web

It had supposedly been made in the nineteen-forties, for an Italian countess or an English lady, then scrapped, and afterward either smuggled out of the workroom by a starry-eyed seamstress or, with the atelier head’s approval, given to one of the in-house models. —Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026

The employee, 35-year-old Shelbi Wolken of Wheat Ridge, allegedly used the patients' information to pick up the patients' prescriptions at the hospital's in-house pharmacy herself. —Logan Smith, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026

Lynch has made cameos on the 49ers’ in-house videos promoting this week’s signings of Evans and Greenlaw. —Cam Inman, Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2026

Arm is expected to launch its own in-house CPU this year, with Meta as an early customer. —Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1956, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for in-house

• alehouse
• almshouse
• backhouse
• baghouse
• bakehouse
• bathhouse
• bauhaus
• blockhouse
• boathouse
• brewhouse
• bunkhouse
• clubhouse