as in hotels
a building where people pay to live and have daily meals
a onetime boardinghouse that is now the site of the town's historical museum
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Empty hotels and golf courses might do it.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025 -
The governor suggests this is needed because all the immigrants who were staffing hotels, building homes and picking crops are packing up and leaving.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Boardinghouses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boardinghouses. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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