(n.) The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
(n.) A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
(n.) One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
(n.) A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
(n.) The male of a pair of animals.
(v. t.) To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
(v. t.) To cultivate, as land; to till.
(v. t.) To furnish with a husband.
Example Sentences:
(1) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(2) Some 10 years after arriving in Sheffield with her husband and three-year-old son, Bazzie is a success story.
(3) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(4) Prostitute visit is a main risk factor, irrespective of whether the husband had a history of sexually transmitted diseases or not.
(5) In each of the four study sites, focus group discussions or in-depth interviews were held with potential acceptors, current NORPLANT users, discontinuers, husbands of women in these three groups, and service providers.
(6) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(7) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
(8) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
(9) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
(10) MLC's were carried out between the cells from the serum donor and her husband in the presence of nonimmune AB serum and the test serum.
(11) Last week the prosecution dropped a series of allegations that Gail Sheridan, also 46, had lied on her husband's behalf by providing a series of false alibis to cover up his affairs and trips to Cupids.
(12) The director of the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Alexandra Hildebrandt, keeps a tally started by her late husband Rainer, the museum’s founder, which currently lists 1,720 victims.
(13) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
(14) [Disclosure: Newly-elected Elise Stefanik, the youngest woman elected to Congress, is a college friend of my husband’s.]
(15) According to calculations by the Resolution Foundation, a couple with two children in which the husband works full-time and the wife works part-time on or just above minimum wage stand to lose a total of £720 a year by 2020.
(16) ‘It’s hard to understand why we have all had to go through this’ – Angelene Wright, 66, from Lincolnshire I’m a carer for my 64-year-old husband who is in the final stages of multiple sclerosis.
(17) Braff will direct and play the lead role of a father, actor and husband struggling to find his identity.
(18) The wife shared four major histocompatibility (HLA) antigens with her husband.
(19) Husband's self-care activities, uncertainty, and husband's physical and mental symptoms were concerns that spouses frequently reported at T2.
(20) My husband believes in human rights, democracy and transparency.
Polygamize
Definition:
(v. i.) To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mode of inheritance of the abnormalities in this family as in other reported cases is thought to be an autosomal dominant type which is unaffected by the polygamous situation.
(2) There was little association with sociodemographic variables, except that prevalence was high in divorced, widowed and separated women, polygamously married women and single parents.
(3) The present study was a pilot effort to determine whether Kuwaiti wives of polygamous marriages were disproportionately represented in the inpatient psychiatric as opposed to the general population.
(4) Although sociologists and anthropologists, as well as common sense, have suggested that a polygamous marriage may have a negative effect on the wives involved, an extensive literature search failed to uncover any psychiatric research that attempts to examine this situation or objectively delineates possible psychiatric sequelae.
(5) Those few that are real men are unfaithful and polygamous, but most men are unsatisfactory – rude to their wives, unable to give pleasure, bullying, selfish, indifferent to their children, eager to marry a younger secretary.
(6) A number of cases corresponding to polygamous and monogamous matings of individuals are considered.
(7) The following variables had zero-order associations with contraceptive usage: marriage type (monogamous or polygamous), area of residence, religion, and woman's occupation.
(8) Multiple logistic regression modelling of data from both approaches, including each of these risk factors and sex, age, village and season, suggested father's smoking, carriage on the mother's back while cooking and being part of a polygamous family increase risk of ALRI, the latter two for girls only.
(9) In the present work we evaluated the degree of sexual dimorphism in two cell groups of the medial preoptic-anterior hypothalamus (MPOA-AH) in monogamous and polygamous voles.
(10) Methods are described for the maximum likelihood estimation of mating preferences in models of assortative mating for monogamous and polygamous organisms.
(11) A constellation of significant stressful life situations was found among the diabetics such as early loss of father, being first borns, born of polygamous parents, being themselves polygamous, being the children of the first wives, and producing many children without having the adequate professions to yield the necessary financial resources to train them.
(12) Although a polygamous society, three-fourths of married men had only one wife.
(13) I am not saying there isn’t a problem with legally invalid marriages or polygamous marriages – there is.
(14) Only in the polygamous species do males have larger hippocampi relative to the entire brain than do females.
(15) The load may be greatly reduced for mildly deleterious mutations if female choice (for males with few or no mutations) is present in a polygamous species.
(16) Males gave more evidence of competitiveness and tended to mate polygamously.
(17) The pied flycatcher is a polygamous and polyterritorial bird species.
(18) Farage added: “We even, a few years ago, had some quite clear examples where the immigration services were actually allowing women to come into Britain from Pakistan and elsewhere to join polygamous marriages – something that is against our law.
(19) 61.5% of the mothers lived in monogamous marriages, with 37.5% in polygamous marriages.
(20) A stable sexual relationship or consistent use of condoms in polygamous sexual practices is probably the most meaningful means of controlling the sexual transmission of HPV.