interhouse

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ house

Adjective

interhouse (comparative more interhouse, superlative most interhouse)

1. Between houses.
   • 1972, James J. Heaphey, Legislative Security, page 44:

     Legislatures, with a tradition of interhouse cooperation will have no trouble transferring that habit to the area of developing and implementing a set of security policies.

   • 1981, Measurement of Subjective Phenomena - Volume 3, page 158:

     On Harris and NORC surveys, there were six demographics that were asked and coded in sufficiently similar fashions to permit interhouse comparisons: sex, age, education, family income, marital status, and religion.

   • 1986, John L. Comaroff, Simon Roberts, Rules and Processes, →ISBN, page 226:

     Furthermore, for reasons that will by now be obvious, interhouse relations represent a paradigm for the politics of agnation at large: any competition for influence or position among patrilateral kin is, in essence, a rivalry between houses produced by a shared ancestor and reproduced across the generations, and particular units, whether or not they take the initiative in such processes, are ultimately drawn into their purview (see chap. 2).