bed and breakfasting
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the practice of selling shares at the end of the day and buying back those shares early the next day, in order to reduce the amount of capital gains tax owed.
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the practice of staying in a bed-and-breakfast.
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Awakening early, she inaugurated a habit of getting up at once, instead of lolling in bed, and breakfasting there, and reading her mail, as had been her wont before going West.
From The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
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