living accommodations
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3.3
- noun
- "First, Jurassic Park has all the problems of any amusement park—ride maintenance, queue control, transportation, food handling, living accommodations, trash disposal, security."
Examples
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After starting a conversation with the student, Lehmitz suggests other living accommodations the homeless student could use.
Blog text (30) -
Our first-class living accommodations combine all the comforts of home... with a nurturing environment.
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Show him the living accommodations.
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If privacy is important to you, make sure you provide your nanny with separate living accommodations.
Blog text (1) -
Oh, OK, this is just cardboard when I was sharing living accommodations with somebody as opposed to living on my own.
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The first time it happened was when I was 5. My mother had a poultry farm back in Nigeria, and some of the workers had their own living accommodations at the end of our plot.
Blog text (12) -
It is not possible to determine whether those students believe that they have no other choice of free living accommodations and are therefore satisfied with their residence hall living environment by default.
Academic text (2007) -
The new apartment provides excellent living accommodations for the entire family.
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Students often struggle to find affordable living accommodations near campus.
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The hotel offered luxurious living accommodations for its guests during their stay.
Synonyms
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1.0
Buildings where people live, like houses or flats
332
2.9
Rooms or buildings where a group of people live, like soldiers
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2.5
A house or other place where someone lives
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5.0
A place where people stay, like a hotel or room
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3.4
A place where you stay for a short time or a short stay there
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2.9
A house or apartment where someone lives
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5.8
A place where someone lives, like a house
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2.8
Rooms or small buildings where people live inside a larger place
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3.3
Temporary rooms you rent to stay in for a short time
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3.8
A building that offers rooms for people to stay for a short time
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'living' (related to residing or inhabiting) combined with 'accommodations' (lodgings or housing) yields the straightforward meaning 'places to live or be housed'. This adjective+noun pattern is regular in English and parallels constructions in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Living accommodations joins the word living, meaning where people sleep and spend their time, and accommodations, meaning places or rooms that give shelter and basic needs. So it simply means 'places where people live or are housed', like rooms, shared houses, or company housing.