house rule

noun

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of house rule¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

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.

From Digiday

It’s advising hosts to update their house rules and proactively communicate them to their guests.

From Fortune

On 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.

From Digiday

Each 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.

From Washington Post

Eero’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.

From Time

It is a house rule, Mr. Fowle,” she said, “that the girls are forbidden to talk during working hours.

From Project Gutenberg

There was the plain house-rule that neither she nor Ethel were ever to leave the roads when they were out alone.

From Project Gutenberg