family grouping
(countable) A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage.
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(countable) A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage.
This strategy of family grouping and sharing of responsibilities appears to be designed to enable coati mothers to devote more time to searching for food, rather than having to individually protect their young.
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(countable) The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together.
This close family grouping may be a fairly recent development, for Lang and Tastevin (1937, p. 70) report that the Mwila once lived in villages of fifteen or twenty families consisting of approximately one hundred people and that, at the…
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(countable) A group of family members who are posed together.
Frude's (1990) discussion of the psychological definition of family, further elaborated in Chapter 2, accords well with family nursing, in that it recognises the non-traditional family groupings such as cohabiting couples, blended famili…
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- framily65%
(slang) A group of friends who are close like a family.
- blood62%
A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. See blood relative, blood relation.
- marriage60%
A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.