efficiency apartment
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3.5
- noun
- /ɪˈfɪʃənsi əˈpɑrtmənt/
- US
:
apartamento tipo estudio
- Living in an efficiency apartment is ideal for those who prefer a minimalist lifestyle.
Examples
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She enjoys the cozy atmosphere of her efficiency apartment, which has all the essentials in one space.
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Twenty years ago, Tremaine had created and sold computer gaming software from an efficiency apartment in Oakland.
Fiction book (2001) -
I was surprised when Henry appeared at my efficiency apartment.
Fiction book (1990) -
They came and stayed with me my first Christmas in the nation's capital, sleeping on the floor of my efficiency apartment.
Academic text (2010) -
Once we arrived for a couple-week visit at the efficiency apartment he rented in a coastal tourist town.
Blog text (32) -
They live with their six children in an efficiency apartment with no running water near Allen Parkway.
Fiction book (1999) -
Yolanda was working there nights and living in an efficiency apartment over her sister's office in a three-story house two blocks from the bar.
Fiction book (1992) -
The Williamson Apartments in Northeast Austin can house 10 women, each with her own efficiency apartment on the back end of the home's 10-acre lot.
Blog text (7) -
If you look at the whole package, then you know whether you think it would be cool to live with eight other creators in an efficiency apartment, or if you are more the nuclear family creator, or the living high on the hog creator, etc.
Blog text (10) -
They want to know how she’s doing with the workload of maintaining an efficiency apartment and how she’s doing in general.
Blog text (7)
Synonyms
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3.2
A small apartment with one main room and a separate bathroom
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2.8
A small home with one main room for living, sleeping, and cooking and a separate bathroom
How Spacious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents suggest an 'apartment' characterized by 'efficiency' — i.e., an efficiently arranged, likely small living space — so a learner could infer it denotes a compact, space‑saving unit. However, the conventional housing sense (a studio with a kitchenette and separate bathroom) is a regionally specific lexicalization and not fully predictable from the abstract noun 'efficiency', so the relation is only partly transparent.
Etymology
Efficiency apartment may come from the idea of efficiency, that is using space well in a small apartment. So the name came to mean 'a small, one-room apartment with a tiny kitchen and a separate bathroom'.