Synonyms for family unit
fam·i·ly unit

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1. family, family unitnoun

   primary social group; parents and children

   "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"

   Synonyms:
   kinsperson, mob, crime syndicate, kinfolk, menage, family line, class, home, category, kinsfolk, family, folk, household, fellowship, sept, kin, phratry, house, syndicate

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1. • Kin

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1. Randi Zuckerberg:

   When you have such a big family, you kind of have all of your companions built into your family unit, maybe after just spending his entire childhood growing up with three sisters, he's like, I just got to connect with other people.

2. Deputy District Attorney Christy Bowles:

   The desperation is what led to his desire to hurt anyone who he felt might be a threat to his family unit. His family unit was everything to him. He did not have a lot of outside interest, a lot of outside friends, a threat to his family unit resulted in his desire to harm anyone who might get in the way of keeping that family whole, and is ultimately what led to the murder of [Maya].

3. Tom Hoyer:

   We were a family unit of five always trying to fit into a world set up for even numbers, two -, four -, six-seat tables in a restaurant. Two -, four -, six-ticket packages to events. Things like that.

4. White House:

   1 out of every 6 family unit cases filed on special expedited dockets at 10 immigration courts has ended with an in absentia removal order.

5. Pearl S. Buck:

   The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.