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paying guest

British  

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

But it also changes everyone who comes into the restaurant as a paying guest.

From Washington Times Nov. 22, 2016

With the flicker of another smile the landlady left her paying guest to the enjoyment of his supper and thoughts of the comic muse who could couple the sobbing of a 'cello with Puddephatt.

From The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

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