| personal care | care for someone who is disabled or is otherwise unable to care for themselves, can including bathing and cooking and managing bodily functions |
| personal foul | a foul that involves unnecessarily rough contact (as in basketball or football) |
judgment in personam
judgement in personam
personal judgment
personal judgement | a judgment rendered against an individual (or corporation) for the payment of money damages |
home appliance
household appliance | an appliance that does a particular job in the home |
personal computer
PC
microcomputer | a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time |
personal digital assistant
PDA
personal organizer
personal organiser
organizer
organiser | a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks, can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc. |
white goods
household linen | drygoods for household use that are typically made of white cloth |
identity
personal identity
individuality | the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity, you can lose your identity when you join the army |
charisma
personal appeal
personal magnetism | a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others |
| personal equation | variability attributable to individual differences |
| manner personal manner | a way of acting or behaving |
personal business
personal matters
affairs | matters of personal concern, get his affairs in order |
episodic memory
personal memory | memory for episodes in your own life |
home economics
home ec
domestic science
household arts | theory and practice of homemaking |
| personal | a short newspaper article about a particular person or group |
| personal pronoun | a pronoun expressing a distinction of person |
| personal letter | a letter dealing with personal affairs |
personal identification number
PIN
PIN number | a number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts |
family household
house home
menage | a social unit living together, he moved his family to Virginia, It was a good Christian household, I waited until the whole house was asleep, the teacher asked how many people made up his home |
| head of household | the head of a household or family or tribe |
| personal representative | a person who manages the affairs of another |
personal property
personal estate
personalty
private property | movable property (as distinguished from real estate) |
chattel
personal chattel
movable | personal as opposed to real property, any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) |
effects
personal effects | property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business, she left some of her personal effects in the house, I watched over their effects until they returned |
| personal income | the income received by a single individual |
| personal expense | the cost of personal or family living, some personal expenses are tax deductible |
credit line
line of credit
bank line
line
personal credit line
personal line of credit | the maximum credit that a customer is allowed |
personal check
personal cheque | a check drawn against funds deposited in your personal checking account |
personal loan
consumer loan | a loan that establishes consumer credit that is granted for personal use, usually unsecured and based on the borrower's integrity and ability to pay |
personal relation
personal relationship | a relation between persons |
| personal | particular to a given individual |
| personal | concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality, a personal favor, for your personal use, personal papers, I have something personal to tell you, a personal God, he has his personal bank account and she has hers |
| personal | intimately concerning a person's body or physical being, personal hygiene |
| personal | indicating grammatical person, personal verb endings |
| personal | of or arising from personality, personal magnetism |