efficiency apartment

noun

Definition of efficiency apartmentnext
as in studio apartment

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Recent Examples of efficiency apartment The former Sears building would be redeveloped into a local brewery, art gallery, event space, retail space, offices, and efficiency apartments. — Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 17 Dec. 2025 Rising costs of rent in Miami drove the Lopez family and other neighbors to begin renting out efficiency apartments connected to their trailers. — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for efficiency apartment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for efficiency apartment
  1. studio apartment
  2. garden apartment
  3. duplex apartment
  4. efficiency
  5. railroad flat
  6. condo
  7. granny flat
  8. penthouse
Noun
  • The proposal is for one building that would contain three studio apartment homes, 35 one-bedroom apartment homes, and 36 two bedroom apartment homes.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026
  • There, guards forced her and the other Azov women onto the ground and told them to crawl across the concrete floor and into their cell, a basement smaller than a studio apartment, with a sliver of window just above ground level.
    — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of studio apartment
Noun
  • Pretty in Pink is one way to refer to this historic garden apartment—built in 1875.
    — Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The result tees up a vote today by the full City Council, when aldermen could give a green light clearing the way for new garden apartments, attic-to-housing conversions and coach housing.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2025
Definition of garden apartment
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  • Griffin also recently paid $38 million for a duplex apartment up the block from where Mamdani shot the video, according to the Wall Street Journal.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • After meeting his girlfriend, İlkay, the couple moved into a furnished two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom duplex apartment in the Kadıköy neighborhood of Istanbul.
    — Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2025
Definition of duplex apartment
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  • Local processors have the opportunity to dramatically increase mineral recovery rates and improve final output quality with high-efficiency refining capabilities such as advanced sorting and critical minerals recovery technologies.
    — Rob Kaplan, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Lower taxes, cheaper borrowing, technological efficiencies all play a role.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of efficiency
Noun
  • Their first place had been a railroad flat, four flights up, three avenues over on Columbus, amid the drug dealers and the prostitutes, the opera singers and the social workers, fine for newlyweds starting out.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
  • Shelton moved with her five kids to a railroad flat on Blake Street in Berkeley.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2022
Definition of railroad flat
Noun
  • Guthrie responded to the catastrophic damage brought by hurricanes Idalia, Helene and Milton, and to other crises like the Surfside condo collapse.
    — Michael Van Sickler, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Continue reading … LIZ PEEK — Marxist streamer raking in millions from his West Hollywood condo wants your vote.
    — , FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of condo
Noun
  • Another would permit accessory dwelling units — commonly called granny flats, or ADUs — in backyards across the state.
    — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2026
  • They've been called granny flats, carriage houses, or mother-in-law suites.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 17 May 2026
Definition of granny flat
Noun
  • Reportedly Bezos has just bought a six-bedroom, 17,000-square-foot penthouse condo at the Aman Beverly Hills, a new super-luxe residence and hotel complex close to Rodeo Drive.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Suites, guest rooms with fireplaces, balconies are available, as well as a three-bedroom penthouse of 2,100 square feet that sleeps six.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of penthouse

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