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Discover LudwigThe phrase "house rule" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to refer to a guideline or regulation that is established within a specific household or group. Example: "One of our house rules is that everyone must clean up after themselves in the kitchen."
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house rule
noun
A rule adopted by a particular establishment.
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Don't have your own house rule?
The house rule was: no talking.
(Another house rule, which is reinforced by signs on the wall, is "No means no").
The board is planning to enforce a house rule prohibiting attaching items to the balcony.
"Here, however, it appears that the board enacted the house rule on its own," Mr. Sladkus said.
After feeding our names and an arbitrary house rule ("Make a fish face") into the robot, we began our game.
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The 2011 ACGME regulations required substantial changes to the structure of general surgery residency programs, due primarily to the 16-hour in-house rule for PGY1 residents.
For the extraction of PPI events, we are using an in-house rule-based tool, which extracts interactions between proteins, as well as interactions between a protein and a protein complex, protein region or class of proteins.
Most of the sessions and private events are governed by the so-called Chatham House rule.
It was held under the Chatham House rule, whereby comments are unattributed in order to encourage free debate.
It was held under the Chatham House rule, which allows comments to be reported without attribution to encourage free debate.
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