"ménage" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"Oh,\" cried her ladyship, \"I see the whole ménage; they will take a first floor over a baker's shop, to save fire, and live upon red herrings during the week, with a mutton chop by way of meat on a Sunday.\"",
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        "A type of cooperative society whereby all members pay a regular sum of savings, or through which goods can be paid for in installments."
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