houser
Americannoun
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a person who lives in or is affiliated with a specified type of house (usually used in combination).
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someone or something that provides a place for someone to live.
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These units can be managed by the owner or granted to a nonprofit houser or the Housing Opportunities Commission.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2022
"Oh, Worcester!" began Rogers, tremulously, "we've come to tell you that it was we who lost Biffen's the houser."
From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick
The situation “was both a wake-up call and a cautionary tale to housers everywhere,” said Rochelle Mills, chief executive of Innovative Housing Opportunities, a nonprofit developer in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2023
Compare that chart to data released this week by the Eviction Lab, a research group run out of Princeton University by Matthew Desmond, the sociologist whose Pulitzer-winning book Evicted had housers talking in 2016.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2018
“I knew these guys were rough housers, and I was like, ‘Look man, I’m not going anywhere, but if you want, we can wrestle.’
From Time ● Jan. 21, 2015
To be safe, check with your local police, who now have access to the FBI criminal database for free background checks on evacuees and housers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thus, Gay's, who never by any chance survived the first two rounds of the cricket and football housers, invariably won the shooting shield.
From The Head of Kay's by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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