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railroad flat

noun

Definition of railroad flat

as in studio apartment

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Recent Examples of railroad flat 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, 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 Shortly after Howe was born, in 1940, her family moved from Buffalo to a railroad flat near Harvard Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019

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Noun

This enables the entire home to be arranged more like a studio apartment than a typical tiny house.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2026
Alone in her tiny studio apartment, Sarah-Jane Hoadley regularly documents her life as a single woman in her 40s with no friends.

— Amen Galinato, CNN Money, 23 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

Noun

That means more scrutiny on gross margins, infrastructure efficiency, how costs scale relative to revenue, and your serviceable debt capacity.

— Denada Ramnishta, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Age-band extension, category breadth, product sophistication and supply-chain efficiency are becoming the new battlegrounds.

— Li Jun, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of efficiency

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But instead of leaving the rink for an empty condo with only his own thoughts to keep him company, Tavares went to a home — Doug Weight’s, to be exact.

— Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
That would make the construction of small apartment or condo buildings less expensive, helping developers fill Chicago’s empty lots with units that are also affordable, said Ald.

— Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of condo

Noun

Villas are a mix of one-bedroom, duplex, and family-style set-ups, and larger residences are planned.

— Michelle Jana Chan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2026
Krohn put in new sprinklers and fire-safety systems after his last renters moved out a few years ago, then cut a hole between the second and third floors, allowing more light and air to filter through what is now a unified owner’s duplex.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of duplex

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