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Definition of Lodgers
1. lodger [n] - See also: lodger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lodgers
Literary usage of Lodgers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town by Margaret Frances Byington (1910)
"Of the 1o2 families taking lodgers, 62 had four lodgers or less; 33 from five to
nine lodgers; seven from 1o to 15 lodgers. TABLE 32. ..."
2. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot by Chicago Commission on Race Relations (1922)
"The prevalence of lodgers is one of the most conspicuous problems in the Negro
... To meet these rents they have taken lodgers. It was seldom possible to ..."
3. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot by Illinois Chicago Commission on Race Relations (1922)
"The prevalence of lodgers is one of the most conspicuous problems in the Negro
... To meet these rents they have taken lodgers. It was seldom possible to ..."
4. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"In reality, however, the 52 per cent of the Croatians who keep boarders or lodgers
do not help to pay the rent of the other 48 per cent who keep none. ..."
5. Poverty: A Study of Town Life by Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree (1908)
"Earnings of lodgers.—There are 1349 lodgers lodging with working-class families in
... If the total earnings of lodgers be included in the working- class ..."
6. The Immigration Problem: A Study of American Immigration Conditions and Needs by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, William Jett Lauck, Rufus Daniel Smith (1922)
"BOARDERS AND lodgers Overcrowding is perhaps most frequently shown by the keeping
of boarders or lodgers. In the cities investigated by the Immigration ..."
7. A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant by John Neilson Taylor (1887)
"lodgers quasi Tenants. — lodgers are entitled, therefore, to the privileges of
tenants, though on a different ground; and if a man takes lodgings on the ..."
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