as in tenant
one who rents a room or apartment in another's house
a boarder who paid $100 per week for a room and meals
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Recent Examples of boarder
Crew can be assigned to the deck or boarding teams, with multiple slots for cannoneers, gunners, and boarders.
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PCMAG, 20 Feb. 2025
Carroll Hospital can sometimes have over 20 patients — called boarders — waiting for an available bed.
—Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2025
Backcountry’s in-house brand is often our go-to recommendation when skiers and boarders are looking for Gore-Tex outerwear at a relatively reasonable price.
—Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 16 Feb. 2025
Marks, a respected value investor who famously foresaw the dot-com bubble, said high-yield credit could serve as an appealing alternative to equities, given that most sell-side strategists project only measly returns this year in the boarder market.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
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PCMAG, 20 Feb. 2025
Carroll Hospital can sometimes have over 20 patients — called boarders — waiting for an available bed.
—Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2025
Backcountry’s in-house brand is often our go-to recommendation when skiers and boarders are looking for Gore-Tex outerwear at a relatively reasonable price.
—Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 16 Feb. 2025
Marks, a respected value investor who famously foresaw the dot-com bubble, said high-yield credit could serve as an appealing alternative to equities, given that most sell-side strategists project only measly returns this year in the boarder market.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarder
Noun
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Serendipitously, Owsley would appear one day at the door, to chat up a female tenant who was renting a room from Scully.—
John Semley,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2025
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Also in August, a former Independence Towers tenant and a former tenant of the nearby Stonybrook East apartment complex sued FTW and its partners, citing poor conditions and retaliation.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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To avoid disputes and to enable positive communication, agreements should be signed between lodgers and landlords.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Apr. 2025
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To avoid disputes and to enable positive communication, agreements should be signed between lodgers and landlords.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In another room, heated to 90 degrees and scented to simulate the smell of an African village, visitors pick up two weighted jerrycans and walk on a treadmill surrounded by floor-to-ceiling LED screens—viscerally conveying a reality no statistic could.—
Megan Bruneau,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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In a new survey created by the Prado, the museum asks its visitors which painting has more characters.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Boarder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarder. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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