single-family

[ sing-guhl-fam-uh-lee, -fam-lee ]

/ ˈsɪŋ gəlˈfæm ə li, -ˈfæm li /

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adjective

designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.

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It destroys families and leaves children to be raised in single-family households.
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The clinic, a large house surrounded by single-family homes, is immaculate, smelling of fresh cilantro and coffee beans.
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Yee was, as Brown writes, a Brown acolyte at one point, representing a district of middle class single-family homeowners.
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This is a far cry from the 50s and 60s, when California abounded in new owner-occupied single family homes.
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“They were mailing applications to the state for licenses for single-family residences on addresses they made up,” says Hogin.
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Not a single family of tropical plants but is here represented by several species.
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Not only is the group thus tied or bound together by nebulous clouds, it has other tokens of forming but a single family.
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A single family named Wright, who are very excellent people, keep almost all the inns on the road.
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Closely allied to the latter suborder is the suborder Plecoptera, which includes the single family Perlid or Stone-flies.
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The result is one of the most sumptuous volumes in illustration of a single family ever published.
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