: existing, originating, or carried on within a group or organization or its facilities : not outside
an in-house publication
a company's in-house staff
in-house adverb

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Parquet floors and chapel-like wooden paneling (the remnants of an actual in-house chapel) sit under those phenomenal, original, hauter-than-haut ceilings. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 Marvel Unlimited has been the company’s in-house digital hub for its comics since its launch as Marvel Digital Comics in 2007. — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 From its in-house-developed Romomo actuator modules and mechanical structure to its real-time motion-control system, RP1 is designed around the requirements of dynamic motion, disturbance recovery and long-term development experiments. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026 This year, Image Skincare released its first product formulated with EDL, a patented bioactive skin-tightening ingredient developed in-house. — Ellen Thomas, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for in-house

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1956, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of in-house was circa 1956

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“In-house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-house. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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