efficiency apartment

noun

1. a small apartment consisting typically of a combined living room and bedroom area, a bathroom, and a kitchenette.

efficiency apartment

noun

1. a small flat or bedsit

Word History and Origins

Origin of efficiency apartment¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

While both an efficiency apartment and a studio apartment can have the same number of rooms, the footprint of an efficiency apartment is always smaller.

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In Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog,” a revival of which is at the Golden Theater through Sunday, the brothers Lincoln and Booth share Booth’s tiny efficiency apartment.

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His family lives with his cousin’s family — about 10 people total — all sharing an efficiency apartment that rents for $2,000 a month.

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She purchased her first home in El Camino through the program after living in an efficiency apartment out of the city.

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Smilen fed street cats nightly and began hoarding them inside the small efficiency apartment.

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