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boarding home

American  
[bawr-ding hohm, bohr-ding hohm] / ˈbɔr dɪŋ ˌhoʊm, ˈboʊr dɪŋ ˌhoʊm /

noun

  • boarding homes
    plural
  1. a building which offers housing and care services for vulnerable populations such as children or elderly people.


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She landed in the hospital and then in a boarding home for adults with mental illness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2018

Elizabeth Terry, 63, a caregiver who lives in a boarding home in the Verdugo mountains, has had to evacuate three times: a wildfire in 2016, another in 2017, then this week’s mudslides.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2018

“I had something very similar happen to me when I was boarding home last year,” one Redditor said in response to the above video.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2017

When he was about 12, he moved to Children’s Village, a boarding home for at-risk children in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2015

For six months now Nance had been living at a young women's boarding home, realizing a life-long ambition to get out of the alley.

From Calvary Alley by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

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