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paying guest

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noun

  1.  PG.  a euphemism for lodger

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

The hotel closed in 1963 but reopened two years later, only to have its last paying guest in 1972.

From Washington Times Apr. 6, 2015

"Let me be firmly established as Mr. Hobhouse, the doctor's new paying guest, before they look at me too closely!" he said to himself.

From The Man from the Clouds by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)

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