interhouse

comparative more interhouse · superlative most interhouse

1. Between houses.

   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.

   1972, James J. Heaphey, Legislative Security, page 44

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   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.

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

   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).

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