youth hostel
B1UK(USshelter)
a building where people with no home can live for a short time: （无家可归者的）收容所
a hostel for the homeless无家可归者的收容所
a Salvation Army hostel救世军收容所
In the 1930s she set up small hostels for orthodox children that provided more of a family atmosphere than did foster homes.
He was taken to a guestworkers' hostel in the suburbs.
On her tour of Europe she meets handsome Will, who invites her back to the hostel where he's staying.
The hostel is close to the train station and has beds for 100 kr.
The Stornoway Backpackers hostel is a basic affair about five minutes' walk from the ferry.
If you stay in hostels or on campsites and don't eat out, it's possible to manage on £15/US$22 a day.
Thirteen people were taken to hospital following a fire at a council-run hostel for the homeless.

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hostel | American Dictionary

hostel
noun[ C ]
us/ˈhɑs·təl/
a large house where people can sleep for little money:
a youth hostel

Examples of hostel

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The group's early demonstrations led to many arrests and the closing of student hostels.
Youths placed in hostels were dealt with by welfare officers.
In addition, many older homeless people sleep on the streets or stay in hostels and night-shelters.
Programmes to rehouse homeless people in independent-living accommodation do not generally include those whose behaviour is chaotic, who therefore remain in hostels.
More out-reach workers and resettlement workers have been employed to work with single homeless people on the streets and in temporary hostels.
The first issue to consider is the appropriateness - from a social justice perspective - of attempting to coerce rough sleepers into hostels.
Everyone's on drugs that are in hostels, nearly everyone.
The female members were particularly active in efforts to set up hostels, creches, and evening classes.
While many hostels provide a high-quality, safe and supportive place for homeless people, others remain intimidating and threatening environments, or at least are perceived as such by some homeless people.
One older, male rough sleeper remarked: seen violence and trouble in hostels, but not so much on the streets, you can pick your friends on the street.
However, it is to contend that homeless people should be permitted to 'vote with their feet' if they feel that the hostels available to them are unacceptable.
While most day centres and hostels for homeless people cater for all ages, their facilities and out-reach and resettlement work are usually dominated by adolescents and young adults.
Played back in countless places, it is now a kind of expandable and retractable architecture, mapping and remapping social spaces in homes, college hostels, marketplaces, parties and picnics.
To cater to the growing number of immigrants, a range of popular restaurants, workers' hostels, and bathhouses started to crowd the main thoroughfares of these areas.
The sensitivity of the ovary to living arrangements became even clearer when the 49 students living in flats and hostels were separated from the 49 who lived with relatives.
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