paying guest
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Rana was an engineering student at Punjab University in Chandigarh when he fell from the fourth-flour balcony of his paying guest accommodation.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
Then again, she seems to hate everyone who isn't a paying guest, and even for them she merely hides her disdain.
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2022
Purchase tickets at the door; $12/members, $15/nonmembers, free/ages under 21 who accompany a paying guest.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2022
She invited the friend of a friend as a paying guest for $60 a night, placed a listing on Airbnb and received two additional bookings right away.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2016
His surroundings, indeed, constituted, so it appeared to him, the maximum of comfort and advantage which could be expected by a middle-aged gentleman, of moderate fortune, in the capacity of a "paying guest."
From The Far Horizon by Malet, Lucas
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