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noun con·do \ ˈkän-(ˌ)dō \

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plural condos

:condominium 3

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The concept includes hotels and park-side condos for Chinese visitors and Sino-curious tourists too far from Beijing.

— rebecca spalding, Bloomberg.com, "Bankrupt Caribbean Paradise Woos Chinese Tourists—and Their Cash," 30 Aug. 2017
Outlook: Gier’s Bass Pro reports: Bass fair on soft plastics and jigs 15 to 20 feet down over main-lake brush piles; crappies good (but small) on minnows or jigs 10 to 15 feet down over brush piles and off condo docks; all other species slow.

— bruce janssen, kansascity, "Fishing report for Aug. 31," 30 Aug. 2017
On one side, a a 39-story residential tower at the corner of 2nd Street and Olive Street will hold 128 condos, and 300 rental apartments, almost 30 percent of which will be earmarked as affordable housing.

— brittany martin, Los Angeles Magazine, "Frank Gehry’s Next Mega-Complex Will Change the Look of Downtown Forever," 15 Aug. 2017
But Camden remains low-key, even when his company is constructing multimillion-dollar, 10,000-square-foot survival compounds, which real estate investment groups are selling as doomsday condos.

— joe p. hasler, Popular Mechanics, "6 Safe, Strong—and Chic—Bomb Shelters You Can Buy Now," 11 Aug. 2017
Oh, and the master bedroom closet alone provides more storage than the couple's Downtown condo did.

— shauna steigerwald, Cincinnati.com, "Cool Homes: Modern home with city views in Mount Auburn," 9 Aug. 2017
An investigation by USA Today found that the percentage of buyers of Trump condos structuring their purchases through LLCs has jumped from single digits to two-thirds.

— The Economist, "Not one to avoid a conflictHow Donald Trump is monetising his presidency," 20 July 2017
To make ends meet, Nucla residents clean Telluride’s rental condos and help construct its elaborate mansions, with their enormous chandeliers and granite toilet seats and computerized bidets.

— michelle legro, Longreads, "When Everyone In Town Has a Gun, But the Enemy is the Economy," 18 July 2017
A massive mixed-use project with apartments, condo retail and restaurant is coming to Lakeview next year.

— lee roop | lroop@al.com, AL.com, "Alabama's best craft beers, small hotels, new eats in AL.com business news," 17 July 2017

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