as in tenants
one who rents a room or apartment in another's house
the new owners took in roomers to help pay for the house
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Noun
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The woman and tenants are experiencing an uptick in what happens during warmer months, the apartment complex said.—
Marvin Hurst,
CBS News,
16 May 2026 -
Also reeling from a fire death are friends and relatives of Oreste Deleon, 70, a Bronx landlord who died along with two tenants on May 6 when an arsonist torched his Mott Haven building.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
16 May 2026
Noun
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Food is so scarce and making rent so difficult that characters are perennially taking in lodgers who share beds and sleep in kitchens.—
Colton Valentine,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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As the morning progresses, the audience is introduced to the other boarders living at the Hollies’ home.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2026
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Some EDs now routinely hold more boarders — many of them quite ill — than patients being actively evaluated.—
Elisabeth Rosenthal,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Roomers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roomers. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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