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• council house — noun 1. A house built, owned and rented out by a municipal council 2. A building in which a council meets • • • Main Entry: ↑council * * * council house UK US noun [countable] [singular …   Useful english dictionary

• council house — also council flat n BrE a house or ↑flat in Britain that is provided by the local council for a very low rent …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Council house — For other uses, see Council house (disambiguation). Council houses at Hackenthorpe, South Yorkshire A council house, otherwise known as a local authority house, is a form of public or social housing. The term is used primarily in the United… …   Wikipedia

• council house — noun (C) a house or flat in Britain that is provided by the local council for a very low rent …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• council — n. 1 a an advisory, deliberative, or administrative body of people formally constituted and meeting regularly. b a meeting of such a body. 2 a the elected local administrative body of a parish, district, town, city, or administrative county and… …   Useful english dictionary

• house — ♦ houses, housing, housed (The noun is pronounced [[t]ha͟ʊs[/t]]. The verb is pronounced [[t]ha͟ʊz[/t]]. The form houses is pronounced [[t]ha͟ʊzɪz[/t]].) 1) N COUNT A house is a building in which people live, usually the people belonging to one… …   English dictionary

• council flat — council flat, British. an apartment in an apartment house that was built by a town or district council …   Useful english dictionary

• house — [n1] human habitat abode, apartment, box*, building, bullpen, castle, cave*, commorancy, condo, condominium, co op, coop, crash pad*, crib*, cubbyhole*, den, diggings*, digs*, domicile, dump*, dwelling, edifice, flat, flophouse*, habitation, hole …   New thesaurus

• council tax — council .tax n [singular, U] BrE a tax which every home in Britain has to pay to local government, based on the area and the value of the house, ↑flat etc …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Flat Holm — Infobox Islands name = Flat Holm image caption = image size = 240px locator map custom = no native name = Ynys Echni native name link = nickname = location = Bristol Channel coordinates = coord|51.37687| 3.12207|type:landmark… …   Wikipedia

• flat — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 (BrE) set of rooms ⇨ See also ↑apartment ADJECTIVE ▪ big, spacious ▪ modest ▪ cramped, little, poky …   Collocations dictionary