mobile home
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mobile home
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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The strike was a response to an almost $100 hike in monthly plot rent - the rent mobile home owners pay to park their home.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Morrison, who grew up in eastern Montana with a nurse mother and incarcerated father, was a founding member of Bozeman Tenants United, the union chapter that has since helped the mobile home parks strike.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
She and other residents of two mobile home parks unionised in May to stage Montana's first rent strike in 50 years, according to the fledgling, youth-filled local tenant union that helped them organise.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
In Bell, nearly 300 residents at two mobile home parks learned last year their parks would be sold and they would need to move.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The mobile home buyer, unlike the ordinary home buyer, couldn’t expect to refinance in two years and take money out.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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