house rule
a rule that is used in a game only in a specific place, as a particular casino, or only among a certain group of players.
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Many roommates are reshaping conversations, upending their living habits and enforcing house rules around coronavirus, according to 11 urbanites in shared living spaces who spoke to Digiday.
‘Let’s survive a pandemic together’: Roommates are struggling with realities of sharing space 24/7 | Kayleigh Barber | January 15, 2021 | DigidayIt’s advising hosts to update their house rules and proactively communicate them to their guests.
Airbnb debuts new rules to prevent New Year’s Eve partying | Danielle Abril | December 3, 2020 | FortuneOn the paper’s cooking community group on Facebook, for instance, members this week defied the “no politics” house rule to post pictures of food that spelled out VOTE.
‘When terrible things happen, our numbers go up’: How NYT Cooking is approaching the pandemic, politics and inclusion | Steven Perlberg | November 2, 2020 | DigidayEach woman has a bedroom, shares common spaces and agrees to follow house rules, and she has up to two years to transition to permanent housing.
Domestic violence survivors say they were kicked out by the housing program that promised to help them | Rachel Chason, Katie Mettler | October 30, 2020 | Washington PostEero’s mesh network is pretty smart too, letting you govern who can or can’t get online, set house rules, and control the entire network via Alexa.
It is a house rule, Mr. Fowle,” she said, “that the girls are forbidden to talk during working hours.
The Bartlett Mystery | Louis TracyThere was the plain house-rule that neither she nor Ethel were ever to leave the roads when they were out alone.
The Devil's Garden | W. B. Maxwell
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