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What (who) is rooming house - definition
rooming house
(rooming houses)
A rooming house is a building that is divided into small flats or single rooms which people rent to live in. (AM)
N-COUNT
rooming house
¦ noun chiefly N. Amer. a lodging house.
Rooming house
A rooming house, also called a "multi-tenant house", is a "dwelling with multiple rooms rented out individually", in which the tenants share bathroom and kitchen facilities. Rooming houses are often used as housing for low-income people, as rooming houses (along with single room occupancy units in hotels) are the least expensive housing for single adults.
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Rooming house
A rooming house, also called a "multi-tenant house", is a "dwelling with multiple rooms rented out individually", in which the tenants share bathroom and kitchen facilities. Rooming houses are often used as housing for low-income people, as rooming houses (along with single room occupancy units in hotels) are the least expensive housing for single adults.
Examples of use of rooming house
1. Permission to reprint/republish Why a mere rooming house in elegant Vienna?
2. Godinez was arrested in an Oxon Hill, Md., rooming house and Alfaro was arrested shortly after in Woodbridge, Va.
3. In April, the British Columbia housing authority bought 10 sagging, century–old rooming house–hotels that are the mainstay for the poor in the area.
4. Halsey was convicted in 1'88 of murdering and sexually assaulting Tyrone and Tina Urquhart, the children of his girlfriend, with whom he lived at a Plainfield rooming house.
5. And the rooming house where he was living when his girlfriend brought him his young son, well, it didn‘t let kids stay there.