in house

See also: inhouse and in-house

English

Alternative forms

• in-house, inhouse

Etymology

From Middle English in house.

Adjective

in house (comparative more in house, superlative most in house)

1. Belonging to or part of an organization; internal.

Adverb

in house (not comparable)

1. Occurring within an establishment, using existing personnel, facilities, and supplies, as opposed to at some external supplier or customer.

   All of the Disney World character costumes were developed in house, using materials like rubber for Mickey Mouse's face and crushed velvet for his black fur.

   We like to keep our product and process development in house to help protect our intellectual property rights.

   • 2009, J. Adamson, Max Reinhardt: A Life in Publishing, page 71:

     Max was anticipating paperbacking The Bodley Head's books in house rather than licensing the paperback rights to a third party, like Penguin, which reduced his royalties and might eventually lose him authors to vertical publishers.

Anagrams

• heinous