Synonyms

paying guest

British

noun

PG. a euphemism for lodger

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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

Then again, she seems to hate everyone who isn't a paying guest, and even for them she merely hides her disdain.

From Salon

Purchase tickets at the door; $12/members, $15/nonmembers, free/ages under 21 who accompany a paying guest.

From Seattle Times

There is, in Miss Manners’ vocabulary, no such thing as a paying guest.

From Washington Post

“I joke all the time that I would like nothing more than to never have another person from the government stay at one of our properties because it displaces a true paying guest,” Eric Trump said on the podcast.

From Washington Post

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