efficiency apartment

noun

: a small usually furnished apartment with minimal kitchen and bath facilities

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Listen to this article The owner of a low-cost motel near I-84 is looking to convert it into 65 efficiency apartments, the kind of repurposing that Connecticut housing advocates have been pushing for in the General Assembly. Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2025 The firm has built 11 efficiency apartment buildings across the country. Kate Marijolovic, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025 The inn also offers two efficiency apartments for longer-term stays. Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2024 Last fall, city officials put forward a plan for the local housing authority to take control of the remaining trust properties and operate them until they could be turned over to developers who would tear down and rebuild them as efficiency apartments for homeless residents. Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for efficiency apartment

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First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of efficiency apartment was in 1930

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“Efficiency apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/efficiency%20apartment. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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