private hotel
Britishnoun
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a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
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a hotel not having a licence to sell alcoholic liquor
Example Sentences
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The campaign has played out in backrooms, private hotel suites and discreet dinner tables in Midtown Manhattan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Plans to use a barge to house asylum seekers were announced as a way of cutting the government's £8m a day bill for private hotel accommodation.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2023
The alleged acts occurred in Butler’s training room, offices, buses and in Howell’s private hotel rooms during away games, the complaint said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
“What clients want and need, by and large, is a private hotel room.”
From The Verge ● Jul. 1, 2022
What had been worse than all the other people’s houses – perhaps, in some ways, even worse than here – had been the private hotel.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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