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Synonyms

mobile home

American  
Or mobilehome

noun

  1. a large house trailer, designed for year-round living in one place.

mobile home British  

noun

  1. living quarters mounted on wheels and capable of being towed by a motor vehicle

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Etymology

Origin of mobile home

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

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Maybe he’ll eventually scrape together enough money to leave the city he’s called home for more than two decades and finally buy a regular old house — not a mobile home, not a boat.

From Los Angeles Times

In one, against Vanderbilt Mortgage & Finance, a Berkshire Hathaway-owned lender for mobile home buyers, the bureau had accused the firm of giving loans to borrowers it knew couldn’t repay them.

From The Wall Street Journal

So did the two little homes her boyfriend owned in the Palisades Bowl mobile home park.

From Los Angeles Times

Both residents had appeared in a BBC Panorama programme last year that alleged some mobile home owners had been cheated out of their life savings.

From BBC

On a hot Sunday afternoon, Brian’s father sat at a table in the family’s mobile home.

From Los Angeles Times

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