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Household vs Fiduciary - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between household and fiduciary

is that household is collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc; a domestic or family establishment while fiduciary is (legal) one who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.

As adjectives the difference between household and fiduciary

is that household is belonging to the same house and family while fiduciary is (legal) related to trusts and trustees.

household

English

(wikipedia household)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 5:
    • Although I was a member of the royal household , I was not among the privileged few who were trained for rule.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • And calls, without affecting airs, / His household twice a day to prayers.
  • (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
  • * 1592 , , IV. vi. 39:
    • In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Belonging to the same house and family.
  • Of anything found in or having its origin in a home.

    • Derived terms

    * Household Cavalry * household deity * household god * household name

    fiduciary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (legal) Related to trusts and trustees.
    • a fiduciary contract
    a fiduciary duty
  • Pertaining to paper money whose value depends on public confidence or securities.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 63:
    • Indeed, currency would be more effective for not being gold and silver but fiduciary paper money.

    Noun

    (fiduciaries)
  • (legal) One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
  • (theology) One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an antinomian.