householder

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who owns or rents a house and is responsible for it and its expenses

   Each householder received a notice about the new waste-collection schedule.

2. 2
   noun

   the head or responsible member of a household

   The census asks one householder to answer on behalf of everyone at the address.

From Middle English housholdere, formed from household + -er. It originally named the person who held authority over a domestic household and later broadened to an owner or occupier responsible for a home.

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