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

Recent Examples on the Web The school district’s repair shop is believed to be the last large in-house program of its kind in the country. Cathy Free, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024 Designed by the in-house team, the interior combines rich Curly Maple and Macassar Ebony wood with gleaming black and white marbles by Saint Laurent. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2024 Mods and users were also frustrated at times with buggy experiences on Reddit’s mobile website (its own in-house app was years away from relaunching). Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024 Draeger’s: Save $4 off the price of a Large Classic Apple Pie, baked in-house at the stores. Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024 Stern, a lawyer and scholar who served for twenty-five years as the American Jewish Committee’s in-house expert on antisemitism, had devoted much of his career to highlighting the hatred and intolerance that threatens Jews. Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2024 The Patriots had an in-house videography team that filmed that. Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024 After befriending Alphonso, the in-house gofer-slash-comic-relief (the mono-monikered Pitobash), Kid gets a promotion and is now serving champagne in the VIP room. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024 Microsoft plans to use Intel’s 18A manufacturing technology to make future chips designed in-house. Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024

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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 19 Mar. 2024.

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