: a house, apartment building, or residential hotel in which low-income or welfare tenants live in single rooms
standing room only
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Laura Carno, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
Screenshots of several social media posts from SRO Tanisha Blanche — employed by the Westchester County Police Department and assigned to Somers Intermediate School in Westchester County — began circulating online this week.
—Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
That role is now shared between sheriff’s deputies, since the former full-time SRO is on leave.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Following up on Trump’s Executive Order this spring aiming to crackdown on concert-reselling scams, the FTC got very specific in its filing in federal court Monday with Swift and her record-breaking worldwide SRO 149 show Eras Tour, that came to an end in Vancouver last December.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
In 1980, Puckett began working with SRO, a San Diego lounge band, and asked Kicks magazine publisher Tom Arnold to manage him despite the fact Arnold had never managed any music acts.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2025
During the 1960s, the Bossert became an SRO, but not a particularly seedy one.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 2 June 2025
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Noun
In Colorado’s Arapahoe High School Shooting in 2013, there was an SRO on the large campus.
—Laura Carno, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
Screenshots of several social media posts from SRO Tanisha Blanche — employed by the Westchester County Police Department and assigned to Somers Intermediate School in Westchester County — began circulating online this week.
—Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
That role is now shared between sheriff’s deputies, since the former full-time SRO is on leave.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Following up on Trump’s Executive Order this spring aiming to crackdown on concert-reselling scams, the FTC got very specific in its filing in federal court Monday with Swift and her record-breaking worldwide SRO 149 show Eras Tour, that came to an end in Vancouver last December.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
In 1980, Puckett began working with SRO, a San Diego lounge band, and asked Kicks magazine publisher Tom Arnold to manage him despite the fact Arnold had never managed any music acts.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2025
During the 1960s, the Bossert became an SRO, but not a particularly seedy one.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 2 June 2025
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“SRO.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SRO. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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