efficiency apartment

noun

Definition of efficiency apartmentnext
as in studio apartment

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Recent Examples of efficiency apartment 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 The inn also offers two efficiency apartments for longer-term stays. — Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2024 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
  • Franklin rented the property from Margaret Stevenson and lived on the second floor in a studio apartment.
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
  • The project includes 36 studio apartments, 144 one-bedroom units and 32 two-bedroom units.
    — Sofia Baltodano, Miami Herald, 30 June 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
Noun
  • 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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  • At this scale, even a simple operation becomes a bottleneck, and any extra efficiency has global economic consequences.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
  • The company says this approach improves physical accuracy, execution efficiency, and generalization for real-world robotic applications.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 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
  • Still, the town looks diminutive, a thin ribbon of boxy wooden condo buildings and parking lots in a brief clearing between foothills dense with conifers.
    — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026
  • In addition, the condo comes with three parking spaces and three private storage units.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 July 2026
Definition of condo
Noun
  • Another guideline would be reducing restrictions on accessory dwelling units, often referred to as granny flats or in-law suites.
    — Joseph Lawler, The Washington Examiner, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The move to expand the use of granny flats and other ADUs is long overdue.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025
Definition of granny flat
Noun
  • Ronaldo spent $8 million on a waterfront penthouse in Bay Harbor Islands.
    — Catherine Odom July 10, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026
  • That, plus a 20-foot penthouse, would keep the statue at 250 feet overall — but with very different proportions.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 July 2026
Definition of penthouse

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