Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

in the head of

English answer:

(in the county of) the head of the household

Added to glossary by Yvonne Gallagher
Aug 30, 2021 18:42
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English term

in the head of

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Sep 10, 2021 09:19: Yvonne Gallagher Created KOG entry

Sep 27, 2021 22:12: Andrea Capuselli changed "Term Context" from "For routine or preventive health care, you would need to use the CalViva Health regular network of providers located in the head of the household’s county of residence. Does it mean county seat?" to "Context removed by ProZ.com staff."

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Discussion

José Patrício Sep 1, 2021:
Used on the head. And the others household members?
David Hollywood Sep 1, 2021:
head of household is fine
Yvonne Gallagher Aug 31, 2021:
HOH replaced now in UK by HRP I deleted my previous note to Phil because "head of household" was replaced in 2001 by HRP (in UK)= household reference person. See definition below
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
A "Household Reference Person" (HRP) is:
(current definition, post-2001): the householder, who is the household member who owns the accommodation; is legally responsible for the rent; or occupies the accommodation as reward of their employment, or through some relationship to its owner who is not a member of the household. If there are joint householders, the one with the highest income is the HRP. If their income is the same, then the eldest one is the HRP.
(previous definition, Head of Household to pre-2001): in a household [..] one adult, that adult is the head of their household (HoH). If there are two adults of the opposite sex living together as a married or cohabiting couple, the husband or male partner is the HoH. Otherwise, the oldest male householder, or husband or male partner of the oldest female householder, is the HoH. Otherwise, the oldest female is Ho
Yvonne Gallagher Aug 31, 2021:
HOH in US tax law https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/fi...
"The head of household is a tax filing status for individuals living in the United States. For a taxpayer to qualify as head of household, he/she must be either single or unmarried at the end of the year and have maintained a home for a qualifying person such as parents, a child, or other close relatives..."
AllegroTrans Aug 31, 2021:
Presumably Either federal law or the law of this particular state (or an administrative regulation) defines what is a "head of household"
Nothing whatever to do with "county seat"
Yvonne Gallagher Aug 31, 2021:
Head of household obviously these days there are many different kinds of households. There are several examples of "head of the household" in the links I gave earlier, especially in this one https://sociologydictionary.org/head-of-household/
another example might be a group of students who are sharing a house or apt. Who is the head of household in this case? The person whose name is on the lease most likely. See new links
It IS English, and "CalViva Health" is in Fresno California!
Yvonne Gallagher Aug 31, 2021:
@ David You must have something good to smoke if you can't understand this??? "meaningless" ? OMG
Masoud Kakouli Varnousfaderani (asker) Aug 31, 2021:
Tony But phil and david said it is...
Tony M Aug 31, 2021:
@ Asker No, the sentence is not really poorly worded, it's just that you are parsing it wrongly, it should be 'head-of-household' — and those missing hyphens would have aided comprehension! This is typical these days in EN-US. But there is nothing wrong with the EN as such.
José Patrício Aug 31, 2021:
It’s evident (as the sense) that county means hear anything as a department where it exists the CalViva Health regular network of providers for health care, that has a head, a leadership/ headship, a government.
There is an organisation, the household’s county of residence.
The whole of residences has a county of household (the house hold exists in the residence)
David Hollywood Aug 31, 2021:
please give the original
David Hollywood Aug 31, 2021:
as it stands... meaningless to English speakers....
David Hollywood Aug 31, 2021:
so maybe you can provide more info to help us
David Hollywood Aug 31, 2021:
just not English....
David Hollywood Aug 31, 2021:
this has to be a translation from some other language
philgoddard Aug 30, 2021:
Yes And households don't have 'heads' any more.
Masoud Kakouli Varnousfaderani (asker) Aug 30, 2021:
Isn’t the sentence poorly worded?

Responses

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in the (county of) the head of the household (usually husband/father)

or mother if husband/father is dead

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Note added at 51 mins (2021-08-30 19:34:26 GMT)
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/head of the house...

if the head of household is unmarried, for tax purposes
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/head_of_household.asp

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Note added at 52 mins (2021-08-30 19:35:05 GMT)
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https://sociologydictionary.org/head-of-household/

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Note added at 53 mins (2021-08-30 19:36:17 GMT)
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in the county of residence of HOH

the county where the HOH lives
Peer comment(s):

agree Charlotte Fleming
2 hrs
Many thanks:-)
agree Tony M : Yes, Asker's parsing is wrong, it should of course be 'in the head-of-household's...'
11 hrs
Many thanks:-)
agree philgoddard
19 hrs
Thanks:-) I added some links in Dbox
agree David Hollywood : ok
1 day 6 hrs
Thanks:-)
agree Tina Vonhof (X)
1 day 18 hrs
Thanks:-)
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+2
53 mins

in the chief/principle family member's county of residence

The head of the the household is the person recognised as the chief/patriarch/matriarch of the family. The person who is recognised as being in charge; responsible for making decisions and earning money.

Thus, in the sentence posted above:

I would take it to mean that one needs to use the CalViva Health regular network of providers that are located in the county to which the patriarch or matriarch belongs to/resides in.
Example sentence:

The girl had to assume the role of head of the household after her mother had passed away.

Peer comment(s):

agree Charlotte Fleming
2 hrs
neutral David Hollywood : OMG
7 hrs
agree Tony M : Yes, Asker's parsing is wrong, it should of course be 'in the head-of-household's...'
11 hrs
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Reference comments

37 mins
Reference:

in the leadership

the household’s county of residence has a leadership/ headship,

links
6: DIRECTOR, LEADER: such as
b: one in charge of a division or department in an office or institution
the head of the English department
met with the other department heads - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/head
County of residence is defined as the country where a person has or will have lived continuously for more than 12 months. - https://www.stat.fi/meta/kas/asuinmaa_en.html
A County executive, County manager or County mayor is the head of the executive branch of government in a United States county. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_executive


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Note added at 11 horas (2021-08-31 06:20:35 GMT)
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As nouns the difference between residence and household is that residence is residence (place where one resides) while household is collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc; a domestic or family establishment.

As an adjective household is belonging to the same house and family. - https://wikidiff.com/household/residence
Peer comments on this reference comment:

disagree AllegroTrans : leadership/headship makes no sense here, you have totally misunderstood the asker's text
14 hrs
But CalViva Health regular network of providers must be an organisation!...
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