single occupancy

American  

noun

1. a type of travel accommodation, as at a hotel, for one person in a room.

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Other Word Forms

• single-occupancy adjective

Example Sentences

“Her ‘public bathroom’ is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door,” the author added.

From Los Angeles Times

Some 1,200 inmates were described as sharing "squalid, dirty and cramped" living conditions, in "crumbling" cells built for single occupancy in 1851.

From BBC

The Utah bill requires any new government buildings to include single occupancy bathrooms and asks that the state consider adding more single occupancy bathrooms to increase privacy protections in existing government buildings.

From Seattle Times

Overcrowding was also raised as a concern by the monitoring board, with most men sharing cells designed for single occupancy.

From BBC

Archaeologists say that as well as containing a high number of valuable goods, the grave was also a rare example of a single occupancy burial, another sign that it belonged to someone of very high status.

From BBC