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grace-and-favour

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noun

  1. (modifier) (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Trump will meet Sir Keir at the PM's grace-and-favour country home Chequers on Thursday.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025

As Deputy Prime Minister, Rayner also has a grace-and-favour flat in Admiralty House in central London.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025

He passes his time farming on one of Mr Obiang’s grace-and-favour estates.

From Economist ● Jan. 4, 2018

Grandiose, richly decorated apartment blocks were built lining wide, Haussmannesque boulevards; enormous resources were diverted into skyscraping luxury hotels, or grace-and-favour flats for artists and bureaucrats.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015

Will it come from Sally Bercow's grace-and-favour Westminster home?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2013

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