| 词汇 | lodger |
| 释义 | lodger noun[ C ] uk /ˈlɒdʒ.ər/ us /ˈlɑː.dʒɚ/(US alsoroomer) someone who pays for a place to sleep, and usually for meals, in someone else's house: 寄宿者，房客 She takes in lodgers to make some extra money.她接收房客以便挣点外快。 Synonym boarder(IN SCHOOL/HOUSE) People who live or settle somewhere asylum seeker boarder brain drain city slicker co-resident frontiersman Georgian guest worker habitant illegal alien occupier Orcadian outflow overspill repeople squatter troglodyte villager welcome wagon year-rounder You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Renting property Examples of lodgerlodger The house consisted of two rooms, and was inhabited by two families and a lodger. At the same time, there was a greater readiness to shelter old women in family arrangements to avoid seeing them live as borders or lodgers. Inhyses were landless dependent people whose status was very much the same as that of a lodger or a cottar. Some could also be worker families who lived as inmates (lodgers) and paid rent in some form. Additional sources of income were required, and these included contributions by women through in-migration of their relations and sub-letting accommodation to lodgers. At the end of the 1940s, every sixth person in an old people's home was such a lodger. There were no lodgers in any of the households for which rent information was available. This mobility generally made it easier for outsiders or lodgers to acquire a house. Small houses and large families meant that there was little possibility of taking in kin or lodgers. The eight patients who could not be traced had mainly been lodgers at the address given or had been living in multi-occupied houses. Within this group there was a high proportion of lodgers, some two-family households and evidence of possible family ties between neighbours. Although still legally minor, they occupied adult positions in the labour force and lived independently (as boarders or lodgers). Two other women spent their last years as dependent lodgers and the last lived with a nephew and his family. We have, however, excluded servants, lodgers, boarders and visitors from the tables. How did space and form articulate relationships between the different constituents of the family, including apprentices, servants and lodgers? These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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