floor-through
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of floor-through
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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Three oval openings perforate one of the blocks, while another has five pairs of floor-through windows that turn it into a skyscraper writ small.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2018
The building features five floor-through offices and a vacant 2,400-square-foot ground-floor retail space, with an additional 2,000-square-foot basement.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2018
By the time my parents bundled their baby into a taxi for a ride across the Brooklyn Bridge to a second-story floor-through in Carroll Gardens, I was Joel Harold Rosen.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2016
It was a floor-through - the whole floor of a building - on Twelfth Street just off Third Avenue for a mere $300 a month.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2014
The monthly carrying charges for the 3,310-square-foot floor-through unit, No. 57A, are $8,148.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2014
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