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Meanings of boarding-house in English

A house where someone can live and takes meals as paying guest.

Synonyms
Examples for "pension"
Examples for "pension"
1
Women's state pension age rise: an unfair burden or a necessary reform?
The Guardian
2
Also consider the rise of so-called risk parity strategies among pension funds.
Reuters
3
Japan's Health Ministry currently supervises the investment strategies of public pension funds.
Reuters
4
This age will rise further as the state pension age also rises.
BBC
5
The implications for pension coverage, health and community care services are clear.
The Irish Times
Usage of boarding-house in English
1
Johnny found considerable difficulty in passing the time pleasantly at the boarding-house.
Twenty Years of Hus'ling
2
Nannie and her mother slept in the back parlor of the boarding-house.
The Gay Cockade
3
Tripp pulled the bell at the door of the mouldy red-brick boarding-house.
Options
4
I saw a pile of coal in the street before a boarding-house.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
5
I did not live in a boarding-house, but in a private family.
Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
6
Her mother kept a boarding-house in New York; not an up-town boarding-house.
At the Sign of the Eagle
7
He spent several weary hours in the vain search for a boarding-house.
Barriers Burned Away
8
But these feelings visited him more rarely in the boarding-house than elsewhere.
The Divine Fire
9
I am tired of the boarding-house and I wish to leave it.
The Tempting of Tavernake
10
Indeed, the mother kept a private boarding-house near the law-school I attended.
At Last: A Novel
11
One is, that she was once a servant-girl in a large boarding-house.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati...
12
At the boarding-house I do have a little excitement now and then.
Sunny Slopes
13
And there are a very nice class of people at the boarding-house.
Of Human Bondage
14
It was half-past eight when they drew up at the boarding-house door.
Bressant: A Novel
15
Another dinner in a boarding-house would lead me to suicide, I think.
Memoirs of My Dead Life
16
She had reached her boarding-house and fitted her latch-key into the lock.
The Philistines