rooming
present participle ofroom
room
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
USuk/ruːm//rʊm/us/ruːm//rʊm/torenta room from someone, orsharearentedroom with someone:
Atcollegehe roomswiththisguyfrom Nebraska.
Synonym
board
Living or sleeping somewhere
- abide
- co-resident
- co-residential
- domiciled
- dwell
- inhospitable
- live in
- live in sinidiom
- live out
- occupancy
- populate
- reoccupation
- repopulate
- repopulation
- reside
- residence
- settle
- slum
- tenancy
- warehousing
Examplesofrooming
rooming
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
He now lives in aroominghouse, but no meals are provided.
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Theroominghouse owners call the hospital and request that they send an ambulance.
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The area probability sample excluded the eight per cent of older persons living in institutions or special settings such as boarding orroominghouses.
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In 1970, people dealt with the drama of appalling fires that ripped through multi-storeyroominghouses.
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It need not be "roomingin", as it used to be called; it could be the provision of accommodation for those who could not otherwise afford it.
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The remaining 7% of residences are a mixture of duplexes, row houses,roominghouses and other types of residence.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He admitted that he went to hisroominghouse after leaving the book depository.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The building also functioned as a post office, dance hall, and hotel /roominghouse.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.From 1926 to 1936, his parents ran aroominghouse that also served as a meeting place for people from all walks of life.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The house then served as aroominghouse for women working in local defense industries.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After the hospital closed in 1942, the house served as aroominghouse for women working in local defense industries.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They were remembered for their meals which were said to regularly attract townsfolk to theroominghouse.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The house became a form of hotel orroominghouse in which meals were served.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is a region with a distinct culture, an area of crowded, cheaproominghouses where day laborers live.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some of the older large residential buildings remain though many were converted intoroominghouses.
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- concluding
- concluding chapter
- concluding document
- concluding observation
- concluding paragraph
- concluding section
- concluding sentence
- conclusion
- conclusive
- conclusive answer
- conclusive argument
- conclusive evidence
- conclusively
- conclusive proof
- conclusive reason
- concoct
- concocted
- concocting
- concoction
- concolorous
- concomitant
- concomitant increase in
- concomitantly
- concord
- concordance